This is a project for my internship application to #HeyMercedes team at MBRDNA, CA, USA. This simple web service takes a text or audio file as input and uses the Houndify SDK alongside with New York Times API to acquire popular news items as a JSON file.

This implementation runs on Flask web platform for Python 3.x

sudo pip3 install Flask

Please open the CONFIGS.txt file to change client keys and IDs related to (Houndify) and (NYTimes) APIs. The popular news period is also configurable in days (allowed values: 1, 7, 30 days)

CONFIGS.txt

Please download the repository. Activate the web service by running:

python3 mbuxNews.py 

You can run the application (runMBUX.sh) in two "audio" and "text" modes as follows:

chmod +x ./runMBUX.sh 
./runMBUX.sh  <mode=audio/text> <name of audio file/input text in HTML format>

Test audio files are saved in "test_audio" directory.

You can try running following scenarios as some examples:

./runMBUX.sh text give%20me%20apple
./runMBUX.sh text give%20me%20news
./runMBUX.sh text give%20me%20popular%20news
./runMBUX.sh audio turnthelightson.wav
./runMBUX.sh audio givemenews.wav
./runMBUX.sh audio givemepopularnews.wav

output JSON file containing the news is saved to "./NYTnews.json"