Media Cloud Geocoding Worker

A service that will pull form a queue of stories with text and tag stories with the the countries they are about (using CLIFF-CLAVIN results)

Dev Installation

Install redis. Then:

1. virtualenv venv to create your virtualenv
2. source venv/bin/activate - to activate your virtualenv
3. pip install -r requirements.txt - to install the dependencies

Configuration

Define the settings you need to in app.config, based on the template in there.

Use

Run the workers in one window by doing: celery worker -A geoworker -l info.

Tagging all stories in a Topic

In another window start up the story fetcher with python queue-stories-in-topic.py 1234 567789 (where 1234 is the id of the topic you want to process, and 567789 is the timespans_id within that topic),

Tagging stories matching a query

Fill in the app.config with your query and filter_query, then run queue-stories-from-query from a cronjob.