Django Verifications is a lightweight coding interface to manually
review and freeze various model attributes using simple metadata
toggles. By specifying models as a VerifiedModel with the proper
model metadata, Django Verifications will expose a web interface for
reviewing and confirming object attributes in your app. For example,
we found this to come in handy for reviewing and confirming the
Facebook accounts of US congress members. After loading in accounts
from a variety of sources - many of which had errors - Django
Verifications allowed us to review each account manually and confirm
that it was associated with the correct politician. Once an account
has been verified, Django Verifications yells at you if you try to
change that value - which can be very useful when your app has a lot
of moving parts, and maintaining data accuracy is of the utmost
importance.
To install, you can use pip:
pip install django_verifications
Or you can install from source:
git clone https://github.com/pewresearch/django_verifications.git
cd django_verifications
pip install -e .
Some of our libraries require the use of 64-bit Python. If you
encounter errors during installation that are related to missing
libraries, you may be using 32-bit Python. We recommend that you
uninstall this version and switch to a 64-bit version instead. On
Windows, these will be marked with x86-64; you can find the latest
64-bit versions of Python here.
ssdeep is an optional dependency that can be used by the get_hash
function in pewtils. Installation instructions for various Linux
distributions can be found in the library's
documentation.
The ssdeep Python library is not currently compatible with Windows.
Installing ssdeep on Mac OS may involve a few additional steps,
detailed below:
- Install Homebrew
- Install XCode
xcode-select --install - Install system dependencies
brew install pkg-config libffi libtool automake ln -s /usr/local/bin/glibtoolize /usr/local/bin/libtoolize - Install
ssdeepwith an additional flag to build the required librariesBUILD_LIB=1 pip install ssdeep - If step 4 fails, you may need to redirect your system to the new libraries by setting the following flags:
Do this and try step 4 again.
export LIBTOOL=`which glibtool` export LIBTOOLIZE=`which glibtoolize` - Now you should be able to run the main installation process detailed above.
Please refer to the documentation included in this repository for information on how to use this package.
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Pew Research Center, 2021, "django_verifications" Available at: github.com/pewresearch/django_verifications
The following authors contributed to this repository:
- Patrick van Kessel
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