Hot Buzz

Overview

Consumes a bunch of feeds to get latest products from relevant sites (e.g. firebox) and scores/rates/ranks them.

Running it

The app is configured in config.cson but the default values are fine.

Start Database

Eg:

mongod --dbpath ~/Database

Pull down new products and rate them

The process that monitors sites/feeds and scrapes the items runs continuously in the background

./backgroundworker.js

backgroundworker has two parts

• workers/feedconsumer.js (pulls down new products via kimono)
• workers/productranker.js (counts primary and secondary links to rate products)

that run on a schedule (see config.cson). feedconsumer needs to be run first to produce the output for the productranker. You can also run each independently:

./workers/feedconsumer.js
./workers/productranker.js

Since productranker runs less often, you might want to run it immediately.

Run the web UI to see ranked products

The web front-end app displays the results, run it with:

cd app;
gulp

and then browse to localhost:3030

Appendix

Consuming web page data for products/links (as opposed to RSS feeds) is achieved using kimono.

Credentials for kimono

Multiple different scrapers for different feeds/websites have been implemented, but the ones below are not currently being used. Details of them kept here just for reference:

• engadget: http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml
• stufftv: http://www.stuff.tv/rss
• techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/gadgets/feed/