Leafthru

A personalized news aggregator.

Leafthru brings together your favorite news through your Twitter feed, using Watson API to analyze text on webpages.

How it works:

• Upon signing up, users can input their Twitter handle.

• When they access the feed page, a GET request is made to /feeds/twitter.

• Twitter feed: Getting articles from an user's Twitter timeline is a two-step process.

• First, the Twitter client gets posts from user's timeline. Loop through the posts and retain the URLs, excluding those containing media (e.g. Pinterest, YouTube).

  # lib/twitter.rb
  def get_timeline(username, num_results)
  end

• The article links are fed through the Watson API (credentials) analyze endpoint to parse out the article's title and summary. These requests are made in parallel using threads.

• Articles are cached for 2 hours

• If the user authenticates with Pocket, bookmarking an article also saves the item to their Pocket account. (Developer docs).

Future features:

• Use a rake task to collect articles from Twitter at intervals.