@ilPostDice

A script that tracks when the newspaper IlPost publishes a word for the first time.
Running at: @ilPostDice. Largely inspired by the work of Max Bittker.

Scraper:

Basic architecture

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Il Post first said is essentially a single script which runs every two hours as a cron job on Github.

html_proc.py parses an xml document. In this case https://www.ilpost.it/feed/ ( sometimes https://rss.draghetti.it/ilpost.xml, as it appears to be sometimes more reliable). It opens the url of each new article, retrieves the text of the article, tokenizes each word and can: tweet the new words using utils/tweet.py or add them to telegram via: utils/telegramBot.py.
Each new word, its context, date and link are saved in a Mongo DB instance. For example:

{
  _id: 6579651f1a28f773943e8448
  word:"stsso"
  context
  "dei combustibili fossili, come ha detto lo stsso al Jaber. Al tempo stesso, però"
  date_added:"2023-12-13T06:00:04.000000+0000"
  url:"https://www.ilpost.it/2023/12/13/nuova-bozza-cop28/"
}

Requisites

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Install PIP requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt.

Start

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Run html_proc.py to launch the script.

Visualization:

On the visualization branch a Sveltekit app visualizes the data over a timeline.

Setup

Install dependencies with npm install (or pnpm install or yarn), start a development server:

npm run dev

# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
npm run dev -- --open

Building

To create a production version:

npm run build

You can preview the production build with npm run preview.

To deploy your app, you may need to install an adapter for your target environment.