Watchtower

Watchtower is a platform for social media listening and publishing.

Listening

Watchtower collects

• news (articles, blog posts ...)
• events

and detects

• conversations (discussions, questions, observations ...)
• local commuities & influencers

related to a topic defined by the user by just providing a collection of anchor keywords.

Publising

All content is published through an API interface.

News can be shared as a scheduled tweets.

Getting Started

Watchtower is alive on https://watchtower.openmaker.eu.

The following instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

• Access tokens for Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Eventbrite, Meetup. All these tokens are optional but in some cases you will miss some of the features of the platform.
• To manage system errors you need to provide a sentry.io token.
• For publishing tweet, you must have a domain. This is mandatory otherwise you can not schedule tweets.

To deploy this project you need Docker and Docker-compose to be installed in your system.

For Ubuntu users

• Docker
• Docker Compose

For Mac users

• Docker Stable Channel

Built With

• Tornado - The web framework used
• Docker - Deployment tool

Deployment

• Create an environment file from the example environment file.

$ cp .env-example .env

• Modify .env file according to your configurations
• Run the following command to build server

$ sudo bash deploy.sh

Open your favourite browser and type http://localhost:8484

Run

• Run the following command to start server

$ sudo bash run.sh

Open your favourite browser and type http://localhost:8484

Authors

• Enis Simsar - enisimsar
• Kemal Berk Kocabağlı - berk94
• Barış Can Esmer - barisesmer

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details