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Fake news verifier Chrome extension using AWS Comprehend and News API

The Chrome extension is based on a Node.js server. It scrap the title of the desired webpage using BeautifulSoup library and search for similar news with the News API. Then, it uses AWS Comprehend to analize every title for them comparing it to the title of the main new.

Authors:

• Kevin Rosales
• Adrián Lorenzo
• Borja Zarco
• Héctor Henríquez

Install:

Server

After cloning the repository, at the directory, use this command to install dependencies:

npm install

For python dependencies, install:

pip install bs4 requests awscli json --update

Before running, make sure your AWS credentials at env.cred.files editing the file:

"AWS_USER":""
"AWS_CREDENTIALS":""

Also, remember to add the News API key if you want to make it working properly

To start the server, just use the npm command that enables it:

npm run dev

Extension

1. At Chrome, go to chrome://extensions. Then enable the Developer Mode.
2. Then, press load unpacked.
3. Finally, select your project folder.

Built With

• amazon-web-services
• css
• html
• javascript
• node.js
• python