Terra Incognita

A personal media geography browser and recommendation system.

Configuration

Dependencies:

• MongoDB - need 3.4.0 or higher

Through PIP or easy_install:

• tld (utility for extracting top level domain names)
• Python Flask
• Flask Browser ID - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Flask-BrowserID
• ~~Bitly Python API - https://github.com/bitly/bitly-api-python~~
• Reddit API - https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

Services:

• An instance of CLIFF for geoparsing: https://github.com/c4fcm/CLAVIN-Server
• An instance of Boilerpipe-Server for content extraction - https://github.com/c4fcm/Boilerplate-Server

What needs to be running for Terra Incognita to do its work

• Apache Server
• Flask Server
• MongoDB
• CLIFF CLAVIN - accessed over http
• Boilerpipe Server - accessed over http

MongoDB Configuration

Create an index on the user history items collection like this: db.user_history_items.createIndex( { "lastVisitTime": -1 } )