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Challenge Overview

A previous challenge has implemented a set of REST APIs for handling video assets, including storing them and managing them (create, retrieve, update, delete).  This challenge will add some new content scrapers.

Existing API

The existing Node application and deployment details are in Gitlab, and the URL to the repository can be found in the forum.

Video scrapers

This challenge will add new video scrapers for the items below.  We want either M3U8, MPEG Dash, or MP4 streams for the parsed videos.  Make sure to look at other video scrapers, like CNN or NYT to get a good idea of what's expected.

MSNBC:

* Web URL:  http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live

We'll scrape what's in the playlist, but just the first page (we won't have to pull other pages of content at this time)
 
CBS News:

* Web URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss/video
 
CNBC :

* Web URL:  http://www.cnbc.com/id/15839263/device/rss/rss.html

README

Make sure the README is updated with verification information about the new features and configuration information so they can be easily added.

Unit tests

As with the other scrapers, unit tests are required for these new changes.  Your tests must cover positive and negative cases and should be reasonably good at covering edge cases and error cases.

Heroku deploy

Make sure the Heroku deployment information is up-to-date and that you keep the package.json up to date as well.  Don't expect the deployment to be anything other than "npm install" / "npm start" locally and "git push heroku master" for Heroku deployment.

Submission format

Your submission should be provided as a Git patch file against the commit hash mentioned in the forum.  MAKE SURE TO TEST YOUR PATCH FILE!
 


Final Submission Guidelines

Please see above

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2017 TopCoder(R) Open

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