QCRI LiveNews Demo

About This Project:

QCRI Live New Demonstration is an internship project that aims to provide the user with a platform to track and customize news of interest to the user in an effective manner.

How To Install The Project:

Requirements:

a. Web Server

b. Php

c. MySQL

d. kafka

e. Python3+

Packages: Twitter, newspaper, tweepy, MySQLdb, reosette-api and json
```
 pip3 install twitter newspaper3k mysqlclient reosette_api confluent-kafka
```
Note: Some dependencies might have to be in place when running the above command. Some hints on how to install these on various platforms:

Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 16, Debian 8.6 (jessie)
```
 sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libmysqlclient-dev librdkafka-dev
```
Mac OS
```
 brew install mysql-connector-c librdkafka-dev
```
if that fails, try
```
 brew install mysql
```
Import Database

Import database from the sql files in DB folder
Run The fellow users script run_followUsers.sh in a screen

screen -S run_FollowUsers run_followUsers.sh

Before running the script, make sure to update the Twitter API credentials and the DB connection details.
Start the Web Server and go to http://localhost/<path>/index.php

Contributors:

Kritika Mishra
Ishita Chopra
Laila Elbeheiry
Tanya Shastri

Mentors:

Hamdy Mubarak
Preslav Nakov
Ahmed Abdelali

License:

This package is being made public for research purpose only. The package is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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