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The Scoop

The Scoop makes catching up on news you've missed easy. Choose a category and a time frame, and The Scoop will find the most popular news articles. The Scoop also provides summarisations of those articles, as well as a link to the full story.

Prerequisites

  • OTS (Open Text Summarizer) command line tool:
  • Apache2
  • PHP 5.3.3+
    • This is what we have developed on so it is most likely to work
    • php_curl must be installed for our APIs
  • MySQL 5.1
    • Again what it has been developed on so is most likely to work
  • crond (cron jobs)
  • Python 2.7.5
    • python-MySQL also required

Setup

  1. Install prerequisites as above
  2. clone the directory with git clone http://github.com/edlongman/thescoop.git
  3. Set your server/alias directory to thescoop/site
  4. Create a cron job of */5 * * * * python /path/to/thescoop/rss_log.py this logs the values every 5 minutes
  5. Create a database in MySQL and import bbc.sql
  6. Copy config.sample.py and config.sample.php and change the options to your sql info and remove the sample