github.com/hansyagarwal/news-api

news-api

Requirements

• Postman
• Go ver 1.4 or later
• Text editor (VSCode recommended)

What operations it can do?

• Create an Article
• Get an Article by it's id
• List/Get all the Articles
• Search for an artice by it's title,subtitle or content

How to run?

import/download all package and libraries using go get

go run main.go

port: 3000

everything is case-sensitive

the mongodb uri is kept public for some time

open postman and create new request

for creating an article,

switch from GET to POST and type localhost:3000/articles select body and then raw and for example type

{
	"Title": "news article",
	"Subtitle": "subtitle of new article",
	"Content": "content of new article"
}

click send

for other operations,

switch to GET and type: localhost:3000/articles to list all the articles

localhost:3000/articles/<id> to get the article by its id (try 5fa96b181aff7c9b9bb04e8a as id or put localhost:3000/articles/5fa96b181aff7c9b9bb04e8a)

localhost:3000/articles/search?q=<search term> to get the article by its title/subtitle/content (if the title is more than 1 word use %20 for space, eg: localhost:3000/articles/search?q=Covid19%20vaccine)