b-weyl / fakemenot

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

fakemenot

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

Requriements

• tesseract
• tesseract-data-eng

Setting Up

• Run python setup.py install to install requirements. Install script is still a work in progress.
• Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and put your consumer and API keys in
• Run python fakemenot/__init__.py after installation. fakemenot/twitter.config

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.

Image Samples

Tweet by @mattdm:

Output: