ap_wfm

AP WebFeeds Manager parser

Install requirements

Install requirements

1. An AP Exchange Saved Search news feed. At least one, but several can work at the same time. We've got ~16 going at a time.
2. An AP WebFeeds Manager installation pointed at the AP Exchange news feed
3. A working Django installation
4. A cron job that inserts the AP stories resulting from the AP Exchange -> WebFeeds Manager XML into a Django database.

Then install the project requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To restart

If running a manual restart from oper account home directory on command line:

$ nohup java -jar [your_django_project]/ap_wfm/WebFeedsAgent.jar commandLine > /dev/null 2>&1 &

or try this if the above dies when you log out:

$ java -jar [your_django_project]/ap_wfm/WebFeedsAgent.jar commandLine > /dev/null 2>&1 &

(Remember, this is only to restart. First time runinng, you must supply userName, password and agentName.)

To see if it's running (on Linux):

$ ps -ef | grep java

To run locally

The key to getting it to run locally from within a virtual environment (so as to mimic a production type of environment) is to set the shebang on the first line of call_process_feed.py to the path of the virtual environment Python, e.g.:

#!/Users/mac_username/Development/.virtualenvs/virtual_env_name/bin/python

Another tip: Set the logging level via the AP WebFeeds Manager website interface to Debug. (Profiles => Profile Preferences tab => Logging => Log level dropdown) Then search for SCRIPT OUTPUT lines and the word "Traceback" for Python errors.

To get the ingestion script to run with a local, development set of settings:
python manage.py process_feed /Users/jheasly/Development/ap_wfm/WFA/feeds/All-TopHeadlines-JH/feed_644355_2015-06-02T16-39-38.445Z.xml --settings=test_root.local_settings

Starting tips

Follow the above, then check the below: