Sinhala News Platform

This AI-based application collects, categorizes, visualizes and recommends Sinhalese news articles.

Instructions to Start the Application

Pre-Requisites

Python greater than 3.11 installed. Anaconda prefererd

How to start the application

1. Create a new anaconda environment.

   conda create --name sinhala-news-platform python=3.11

2. Activate anaconda environment.

   conda activate sinhala-news-platform

3. Install required python dependencies.

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Download models from OneDrive location.

   1. Create a new directory in project root directories with path "temp/models" if not exists.
   2. Move the downloaded files into "temp/models" folder. (Make sure not to rename any folder in downloaded files)
   3. At the end, file structure should look like below.

      <Project Root Directory>
      ├─ <Current Project Files>
      └─ temp
         └─ models
            ├─ sinbert-1810
            └─ xgboost
      

5. Start the application.

   python manage.py runserver --noreload

6. Start browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/users/login_user

7. Use following credentials to log into the system.

   • Username: Admin
   • Password: 123

Development Notes

This sections is only for development purposes and please ignore if you want to run the application.

Start the server

python manage.py runserver

Run server without duplicate schedulers

python manage.py runserver --noreload

Migrate database changes

python manage.py makemigrations

then migrate using python manage.py migrate

Create superuser

A superuser login is required to login to the django admin portal python manage.py createsuperuser

Admin portal url: http://localhost:8000/admin

Default credentials

• Username: admin
• Password: 123

Create a new app

python manage.py startapp <appname>