incarcernation

https://incarcernation.com/

This repo contains a tools to process articles from incarcernation.com and extract the key details into a structured format for the website database.

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/tabossert/incarcernation/

If you don't have git you can download the files manually, but git is preferred.

Installing Python and Running Programs

Python version must be 3.10, 3.11, or 3.12.

Installing Python on Windows

1. Download the 3.12 Python installer for Windows https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.7/python-3.12.7-amd64.exe
2. Run the installer
3. Check "Add Python to PATH" during installation
4. Click "Install Now"

Installing Chrome (Required for ChromeDriver)

1. Download Chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/

Installing Python on Mac

1. Open Terminal
2. Install Homebrew if not already installed:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

3. Install Python using Homebrew:

brew install python@3.12

Installing pip Requirements

If you prefer you can create a virtual environment to run the program in, but it is not required.

1. Navigate to the directory article-processor which contains the requirements.txt file
2. Run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting the Anthropic API Key

1. Navigate to the directory article-processor
2. Create a file called .env
3. Add the following line in the .env file:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<your-anthropic-api-key>

4. Save the file

Running a Python Program

1. Navigate to the directory article-processor
2. Run the following command:

python article_processer.py