Watchtower

Watchtower is a platform for social media listening and publishing.

Listening

Watchtower collects

news (articles, blog posts ...)
events

and detects

conversations (discussions, questions, observations ...)
local commuities & influencers

related to a topic defined by the user by just providing a collection of anchor keywords.

Publising

All content is published through an API interface.

News can be shared as a scheduled tweets.

Getting Started

Watchtower is alive on https://watchtower.openmaker.eu.

The following instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Access tokens for Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Eventbrite, Meetup. All these tokens are optional but in some cases you will miss some of the features of the platform.
To manage system errors you need to provide a sentry.io token.
For publishing tweet, you must have a domain. This is mandatory otherwise you can not schedule tweets.

To deploy this project you need Docker and Docker-compose to be installed in your system.

For Ubuntu users

For Mac users

Docker Stable Channel

Built With

Tornado - The web framework used
Docker - Deployment tool

Deployment

Create an environment file from the example environment file.

$ cp .env-example .env

Modify .env file according to your configurations
Run the following command to build server

$ sudo bash deploy.sh

Open your favourite browser and type http://localhost:8484

Run

Run the following command to start server

$ sudo bash run.sh