DetecTroll

Project Overview

This is a team project created during the Hack a Troll hackathon, where we received the audience award! 🥇

detecTroll was created to help identify troll accounts on Twitter and raise awareness about toxic behavior on the Internet.

Live demo

http://detectroll.herokuapp.com/

Best viewed on mobile screens, as we didn't have enough time to fully design a desktop UI.

Team

• Michał Ćwiękała - mentor
• Krystian Gaczyński - frontend, UI
• Mateusz Binięda - frontend
• Karol Wolski - frontend
• Krzysztof Mackiewicz - backend, API integration
• Filip Glura - backend

Technologies

APIs

• Twitter API
• Perspective API

Frontend

• React
• React Router
• React Hook Form
• Axios
• SCSS modules

Backend

• Express

DetecTroll uses Twitter API to get 3 latest tweets by the specified user and send their content to Perspective API where the messages are evaluated in 4 categories: insult, profanity, threat, toxicity. These values are then used to calculate the total "troll score" and display a custom message, for example "Others may feel threatened by your words!"

Installation

git clone https://github.com/mcwiekala/detectroll.git
npm install
npm run start:dev