A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check. Powered by Google Sheets and the rains in Africa. Accessible at https://debunkbot.codeforafrica.org/
Gitignore is standardized for this project using gitignore.io to support various development platforms. To get the project up and running:
This guide will show you how to set up the project using virtual environment or docker.
- Clone this repo
- Use virtualenv to create your virtual environment;
virtualenv venv - Activate the virtual environment;
source venv/bin/activate - Install the requirements;
pip install -r requirements.txt - Create a debunkbot database
- Copy the
.env.sampleto.envand fill in the environment variables. - Migrate the database:
python manage.py migrate - Run the server:
python manage.py runserver
Assuming virtualenv is already installed and activated
pip install -Ur requirements.txt
black .
isort .
flake8 . --exclude venv
Also run pre-commit install to install the pre-commit hooks.
Ensure reddis server is running and start the tasks by running
celery -A debunkbot beat -l info
then
celery -A debunkbot worker -l info
- Build the project;
make build - Run the project;
make run - Stop the project;
make stop
- Create a super user by executing
make createsuperuserand fill in all the required details. - Navigate to
{url}:8000/adminand login using the credentials you created above. - Get/Create a service account on google developer console. Using the generated json, create a google sheet credentials on the admin page which will be used to interract with all the google sheet operations we will be performing.
- Next on the admin dashboard, add one or more Google sheet claims database. In cases where the sheet doesn't have all the fields as shown on the admin page, supply an empty string.
- Lastly, to force the the system to pull the claims from the new claims databases, navigate to
{url}:8000/claims/update.