Inspiration

When reading the news, I always wanted a directed source for when officials were being quoted.

What it does

A user-friendly feed for accessing exterior ministry statement, sortable by automatically generated keywords.

How I built it

It uses web crawlers by import.io to access the statements directly from the government website. It then uses indico.io machine learning api to generate keywords for each entry and store them together with other information in mongo DB. The user can query the keywords and only be shown the statements that relate to a specific topic.

Challenges I ran into

Integrating indico.io into mongo DB proved very difficult due to lacking documentation.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Integerating UK and US feeds using machine learning APIs.

What I learned

Machine learning APIs

What's next for Gov Feed

Expand the number of countries crawled by Gov Feed. Enabling to sort query results chronologically and by relevance.

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