Fake-News-Classifier-

An API to classify fake/real news by a ML model.

Prerequisites

Install python3 and pip.

Download dataset from here.

Set up virtual virtual environment by running the following commands:
```
python3 -m venv fakeNews
```
On windows, run:
```
fakeNews\Scripts\activate.bat
```
On Unix or MacOS, run:
```
source fakeNews/bin/activate
```
Install required packages:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
To build the ML model:
```
python3 fake_news_detection.py 
```
This would create a serialized version of our model into a file model.pkl
To test the API on locally hosted URL http://127.0.0.1:5000/ run:
```
python3 app.py
```

Send POST requests at '/predict' to get a JSON response of:

{"result": "fake"} or {"result": "real"}

Link to the chrome extension can be found here You might as well want to check out the extension repo here