Newsscraper is a news site indexing application. It provides an REST-like API for third parties to use.

Newsscraper was built as part of a test assignment.

Developed and tested under Window 10 with Visual Studio Community 2017 v15.7.3. Environment prerequisites:

• Install PostgreSQL 9.6. Specify postgres for password.
• Install IIS 7.5

• Open newsscraper.sln, set newsscraper as a startup project.
• Issue the following command in Package Manager prompt to create the database: Update-Database If all is well (postgres is up and running, password is correct), the database will get created and deployed.
• Next, run the newsscraper project. It will crawl and index tengrinews.kz website.
• To have a look at the API, run newsscraper.Web project

/api/posts?from=d1&to=d2 displays articles that were published between d1 and d2. 'YYYY-MM-DD' date format is expected.

/api/search?text=foo displays hits for foo in indexed content

/api/topten returns 10 most frequently occuring lexemes in indexed documents