Ok, my first Flask app. Rips through subreddits to pull out top Covid links. Alpha release. :-)

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My first try here. What's kind of cool is the more users, the smarter it gets. AKA more complete. Right now I have about 21K+ Covid links stored in Postgres. Up to the minute latest info. You will be a Covid guru if you dive in. Also the search seems to work well.

[https://hackingthevirus.com/](https://hackingthevirus.com/)

Input REALLY appreciated. thanks!\~ 🙂

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And a blurb. :

\> **Hacking the Virus** is here to provide you with the latest in pandemic news.

We believe information can lead to enlightenment. The selected Reddit subreddits (AKA Forums) arewell moderated (usually), so our S/N ratio is generally pretty good. It's our hope that we can all work together to "Hack the Virus" and win this one.

**Our Stack:** We use the Reddit public API along with Python, Praw libraries, Flask, Postgres, Bootstrap, and lots of Javascript. All residing on Digital Ocean's Unbuntu cloud servers.

8 thoughts on “Ok, my first Flask app. Rips through subreddits to pull out top Covid links. Alpha release. :-)”

  2. congratulations! please post a link to the source code if you can. if not, we’d really appreciate if you elaborated on the development of this project.

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  4. I have one VERY strange bug, if I leave VSC open (i just never quit), it will die every few days, occasionally I have to re/run my config script. No idea why. And nothing in any log file.

    sudo systemctl restart htv.service

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