Atlas: News aggregation service

This paper aims to develop an online aggregator of news feeds and posts from social network platforms such as Twitter and Reddit. The developed aggregator, uses Rich Site Summary (RSS) for article indexing, as opposed to web crawling solutions, because RSS is a very popular standardized format for distributing dynamic web content (Extensible Markup Language - XML). In addition to RSS feeds, we index Twitter posts as well, using the Application Programming Interface (API) provided by the platform developers. Finally, we also incorporate the data from the News API, a system which merges the content of over 60 popular news websites.