README.md

Disinfo-digest

The project is based on a script that downloads links to articles from RSS feeds of trusted sources and filters news primarily about disinformation.

A web application created with Flask then displays these articles and allows for easy searching within them.

Setup

1. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Rename .env.sample to .env and fill in the necessary data

3. init db

flask init_db

4. run app

flask run

5. set up your CRON/scheduler to automatically call the mediacheck.py script

python mediacheck.py

Other Notes

Searching the database is case-insensitive and diacritic-insensitive. To enable this feature, you need to install the unaccent extension in your database:

CREATE EXTENSION unaccent;