FastAPI Gaming News Aggregator

This FastAPI application aggregates gaming news from multiple sources and allows users to retrieve news based on specific topics.

Features

• Fetches gaming news from GameRant and PC Gamer websites.
• Allows filtering news by topics.
• Implements caching mechanism to improve performance.
• Asynchronous fetching of news articles.

Dependencies

• Python 3.7+
• FastAPI
• uvicorn
• BeautifulSoup
• httpx
• cachetools

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

2. Install dependencies:

Usage

1. Run the application:

2. Access the API using a web browser or tools like cURL or Postman:

• To get all news articles:
  • http://localhost:8080/
• To filter news articles by topic:
  • http://localhost:8080/?topic=your_topic

Replace your_topic with the desired topic for filtering news articles.

Hosted Link

You can access the hosted version of this application here.

API Endpoints

• GET /: Retrieve all news articles or filter by topic.
  • Query Parameter:
    • topic: Optional. Filter news articles by topic.

Caching

The application implements caching using the TTLCache from cachetools to store previously fetched news articles for faster retrieval.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.