newsscrape

newsscrape is web scraping for news headline to analyse on how it relates to a news category.

- It extracts RSS feed from Google News.
- Each news headline is matched against Google News category like Entertainment, Sports, etc.
- Called from scheduler to collect this data at 5 minutes interval and be accumulated in a database.
- It contains R statistical computing scripts to learn the pattern on words in the headline resulting a particular category.
- To test its accuracy in predicting the category from a news headline, select a news title from other sources - e.g. http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/entertainment - and incorporate it into the R script for outputting a news category it assumes on the news title.

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2016-07-15

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