MediaMonitor

Monitoring tool for Polish news sites articles popularity in social media.

Prerequisites:

• django

• scrapy

• celery

• pytz

  Roadmap:

      MediaMonitor/ : django project folder with all core settings for django
      
      linkspider/ : tools for scrapping links from sites
      
        linkspider/ : scrapy application for crawling Agora and Onet
        
          items.py : defines what information from each link is to be processed further
          
          pipelines.py : defines functions to process those items
          
          settings.py : scrapy settings: set log level, user agent and pipelines (see above)
          
          spiders/
          
            agora_spider.py : crawler defintion
            
            onet_spider.py : crawler defintion
            
      monitor/ : django app: contains :
      
        views.py -  how to display the data
        
        models.py - Database models of links and stats: writing, reading, updating links and stats
        
        lib/share_getter.py - a core library for getting sharing statistics from FB and TW
        
        templates/ - templates for displaying the data
        
      statspider/ : spider for scrapping popularity stats from social media sites
      
        spider.py: core script for getting the data (using monitor/lib/share_getter.py)