fakemenot

Python CLI app to detect if a screenshot of a tweet is genuine. Work in Progress.

Requriements

• tesseract
• tesseract-data-eng

Setting Up

• Install tesseract and tesseract-data-eng packages.

  • Ubuntu (and other debian based) : sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
  • Fedora : sudo dnf install tessearct
  • Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S tesseract tesseract-data-eng

• Run python setup.py install to install requirements. Install script is still a work in progress.

• [ ! -f ~/.fakemenot.config ] && cp fakemenot/twitter.config ~/.fakemenot.config

• Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and put your consumer and API keys in ~/.fakemenot.config

• Run fakemenot after installation. Setup will install it in your path.

Limitations

• Since it does OCR on the image, detection rate will vary on the quality of the screenshot.
• Only support desktop screenshots now. Universal support coming soon! :)

Arguments

• --image/-i

Path to the screenshot image of tweet. Only works on Desktop screenshots.

• --limit/-l

Specify the number of tweets to pull from the detected user. Defaults to 100. Retweets are not pulled and does not affect the limit.

• --config/-c

Specify an alternate configuration file containing your twitter identification and authentication material. Defaults to ~/.fakemenot.config

Image Samples

Tweet by @mattdm:

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