Project Manager: Meetkumar Patel
Software Developer: David Lascelles
Software Developer: Neeyati Ajmera
Quality Assurance: Christian Batach
Business Analyst: Jaskaranpreet Sidhu
- RESTFUL Web API for interfacing between clients and detection services
- Web App client for the web service
This API accepts POST requests as input. Use the following input name= parameters for valid input.
Minimum requirement is a url as a String.
Native Apps can add the following attributes:
| Attribute | Type | Description | Specification/Example |
|---|---|---|---|
account_name |
String | User's actual name | John Smith |
user_name |
String | User's handle or user name | @john_smith |
post_date |
ISO String | Date of post | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD |
post_date_time |
ISO String | Date and time of post | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD |
account_age |
Float | Age of account in years | 4.3 |
profile_picture |
Boolean | True if user has non-default profile picture | True |
This API returns a float confidence value from
0 for Fake to 1 for Real
The Web/App client should use the confidence value to arbitrarily determine authenticity of submitted content. For example, the client can decide that scores over 0.7 are Real, below 0.3 are Fake, and have an "Uncertain" state in between, or alternatively present the user with a 0% to 100% score.
When this API calls your service, it will pass a json object. The json object may contain null values for any/all
fields except the url key which will contain an article's url as a String.
Access the other json keys using the following structure:
| Parent Attribute | Child Attribute | Type | Description | Specification/Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
url |
String | URL of article | https://www.google.com | |
post_data |
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account_name |
String | User's actual name | John Smith | |
user_name |
String | User's handle or user name | @john_smith | |
post_date |
ISO String | Date of post | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD |
|
post_date_time |
ISO String | Date and time of post | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD |
|
account_age |
Float | Age of account in years | 4.3 |
|
profile_picture |
Boolean | True if user has non-default profile picture | True |
|
page_data |
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title |
String | Title of the article | Breaking: World Peace Achieved | |
subtitle |
String | Subtitle of the article | World Leaders Agree to Peace Terms | |
authors |
List of Strings | Authors of the article | John Smith, Jane Doe | |
publisher |
String | Publisher of the article | New York Times | |
publish_date |
ISO String | Publish date of the article | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD |
|
publish_date_time |
ISO String | Publish date and time of the article | Use ISO format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD |
|
body |
String | Contents of the article | Yesterday afternoon at a global summit, world leaders... | |
citation_urls |
List of Strings | List of urls that are linked in the article | https://www.wikipedia.org, https://www.cnn.com | |
html |
String | HTML Dump of a the webpage | <!doctype html>... |
Return a float confidence value between
0 for Fake to 1 for Real
For decision-tree authenticity checking services, you may use intermediate values like 0.5 to indicate uncertainty.