Sciop: Collecting at-risk data in torrent RSS feeds

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As a website and group of people: A distributed archive curated by distributed archivists preserving public information to plug the memoryhole.

As software: An experimental (soon to be) federated bittorrent tracker.

Please see full instructions in the contributing docs

Installing

Clone the repository:

git clone https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop cd sciop

With pip

Make a python virtual environment and activate it:

python -m venv ~/.envs/sciop . ~/.envs/sciop/bin/activate

Install dependencies and then sciop itself in-place as an editable requirement:

pip install -e .

sciop is also available on PyPI, though while we are in beta we do not regularly deploy versions there, so installing from the repository is strongly recommended.

python -m pip install sciop

With PDM

Install dependencies, automatically creating a virtual environment by default

pdm install

Configuration

All of the following commands can be run either with a venv or pdm install, though only the venv version is shown. For PDM installs, just prepend pdm run like pdm run sciop start

Create a default configuration:

# to see all config commands, # sciop config --help sciop config copy

Two fields must be set:

• SCIOP_ENV/env: one of dev, test or prod. One should only make a sciop instance publicly available in prod mode. dev mode is for local development purposes, as is test. You must ensure that you do not re-use the same db between a dev/test and prod instance, e.g. if the SCIOP_DB location is explicitly set to something other than the defaults.
• SCIOP_SECRET_KEY/secret_key: must be a securely-generated random hex value. A key can be generated with openssl rand -hex 32.

When generated from the cli, env is set to dev, and secret_key is automatically generated.

Run the dev sever

# see available CLI commands # sciop --help sciop start

EUPL v1.2

This project includes the following vendored software:

• htmx - Zero-Clause BSD
• form-json - GPL 3.0
• fastapi_rss - MIT