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Inspiration
Our goal was to reduce the impact of misinformation on the internet.
What it does
Instantly present news articles that provide key context for the tweets on your timeline.
How we built it
We scraped the Twitter timeline with our Javascript-based Chrome Extension and sent the text to a Django site hosted on PythonAnywhere. The Django site processed the text using Hugging face for keyword extraction. We sent the keywords to the New York Times API and sorted through the results for the most relevant data. This information was sent back to the Chrome Extension which presented the data to the user when they hovered over our icon at the bottom of every tweet.
Challenges we ran into
Due to a lack of experience, we struggled with the front end of our project. We also struggled with the subtleties of Javascript asynchronous execution and relied heavily on the mentors for guidance.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Producing a finished product at our first hackathon!
What we learned
The basics of HTML, Javascript, CSS and REST APIs.
What's next for contwext
Integrating more news APIs to provide the user with more high-quality perspectives.
