News source seeker is a console application to retrieve URLS of news sources currently reporting on a given subject, it does this by querying a list of popular news search engines and scraping the URL results.

This project is written in Google's Go programming language (Version 1.5.1), because dependency management in Go is still in the early stages I have provided a Makefile with this project. Building News Source Seeker should be as easy as executing the following terminal command inside the project's top directory on Linux or OSX.

make build

The executable 'News_Source_Seeker' and required .lst resources should now be output in a 'bin' directory inside the project dir.

If you are using Docker then building this project is as simple as running the following command in this project's directory

docker build -t zackslash/news-source-seeker .

Running this project is easy, you just need to run the executable in the bin directory followed by the subject you would like sources for

./News_Source_Seeker <Subject name>

./News_Source_Seeker jack daniels

If you are using Docker then after building the container, running the project is as simple as the following command.

docker run zackslash/news-source-seeker <Subject name>

docker run zackslash/news-source-seeker jack daniels

{"Subject":"jack daniels","Sources":["belfasttelegraph.co.uk","irishmirror.ie","breakingnews.ie"]}

Here most 'source' results have been removed to reduce the example length. The example returns URLs of websites that have a recent article relating to 'Jack Daniels'

News Source Seeker is licensed under the GNU General Public License