mediumreaderv2

🎧 MediumReaderV2

MEDIUMREADER is an app that helps you listen to articles and blogposts from multiple sources. It leverages Web scraping to extract the text from the article, and Google Text-to-sppeech APIs to convert the text to speech. The node gTTs wrapper further simplifies this process by also writing the response to an audio file. This audio file is the uploaded to AWS S3, and returned back to the reader to listen to.

Where is Version 1 ?

The version 1 of this app is available HERE and leverages the SpeechSynthesis web APIs, however this was not very flexible a nd usable due to issues with the SpeechSynthesis APIs.

Running the Web Application

Requirements

• Node.js and npm installed

Clone the app

$ git clone https://github.com/rexsimiloluwah/mediumreaderv2.git

Run the backend

$ cd backend
$ npm install 

$ npm run server

Testing using CURL:-

$ curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:5000/api/v1/audio?lang=en' --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-raw '{
    "url" : "https://blog.medium.com/a-less-long-more-connected-medium-c345db2d6a56"
}'

Run the client (frontend):-

$ npm run client-install
$ npm run client 

View the frontend on https://localhost:3000

Run the full app (frontend + backend):-

$ npm run dev

Deployment

The app is currently hosted on Heroku at https://mediumreader.herokuapp.com

Thank you 🥂, Happy listening 🎧