README.md

IDC410-News-Recommender

Web Scraping using RSS Feed, Text Preprocessing, Vectorizing the news dataset, Content-based filtering, Cosine Similarity, Simulation of Ranking Matrix, Collaborative Filtering, and making a Web App Using Flask.

Team Members

1. Himanshu Jain- MS19026
2. Ira Sharma- MS19037
3. Shreya Pipraiya- MS19107

Instruction to Set Up

1. Clone this repository locally.
2. Open Windows PowerShell inside this folder.
3. Type the following commands-

python -m venv env
./env/Scripts/Activate
pip install Flask
pip install pandas
pip install numpy
pip install datetime
pip install random
pip install hashlib
pip install logging
pip install sklearn
pip install nltk

Running Instructions

1. Open Windows PowerShell inside the folder containing this repository.
2. Activate the environment.
3. Type the following- python main.py

Note:- You may have to use a different alias instead of python depending on the way python is set up on your device.