This repository is outdated. Please see an updated version of NewsGPT here: https://github.com/parsaghaffari/newsgpt-streamlit

Hello 👋🏻 You can use NewsGPT to get the latest news about anything–any topic, category, entity or event. See it in action here.

NewsGPT is powered by GPT-3 and AYLIEN News API. The source code of NewsGPT can be accessed here. NewsGPT is developed using ChatGPT.

The project consists of a Flask backend (in the api folder) and a React frontend (in the client folder).

To run NewsGPT locally:

1. Start the backend

Create a config.yml file which contains your OpenAI and News API credentials (see config.yml.example for a template).

cd api/
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m flask run --host=0.0.0.0 --port=5001

Note: If you run the API on a different port you will need to update api_url in src/App.js.

2. Start the frontend

cd client/
npm install
npm start build

(Use .env for configuring the local development server)

You should now have NewsGPT running on your local machine (by default on port 3005). Open http://HOSTADDRESS/ in your browser to access the app.

Follow the next steps to run NewsGPT on a production web server. Ensure you have Nginx up and running on your server.

Config based on the following articles:

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-flask-applications-with-uswgi-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-18-04
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-react-application-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-20-04

1. Configure Nginx

Assuming Ubuntu. Copy and configure the Nginx config file news-gpt.io.conf to /etc/nginx/conf.d/. Don't forget to restart Nginx afterwards to load the new config.

Follow this guide to obtain a Let's Encrypt SSL cert and add it to Nginx server (the configuration is already there, you just need to point it to the right cert and key files).

Ensure your firewall is set to allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the server.

2. Build the React app and copy to Nginx folder

Before you build the app you need to make sure the value of api_url in src/App.js points to your local production API server e.g. https://${window.location.hostname}/api.

cd client/
npm run build
cp -R build/ /var/www/

If you open your server's address in a browser now you should see the frontend of NewsGPT.

3. Configure uwsgi to serve the Flask API

Copy the uwsgi service description from wsgi.service to /etc/systemd/system. Start the service using sudo systemctl start wsgi. Make sure wsgi.ini is configured properly.