News Authenticity Checker

import tkinter as tk

from tkinter import messagebox

from newspaper import Article

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer

import requests

NEWS_API_KEY = 'your_newsapi_key_here'  # Replace with your NewsAPI key

# ---------- News Verifier Logic ----------

def extract_keywords(text, top_n=10):

    vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer(stop_words='english')

    X = vectorizer.fit_transform([text])

    keywords = sorted(zip(vectorizer.get_feature_names_out(), X.toarray()[0]), key=lambda x: -x[1])

    return [k[0] for k in keywords[:top_n]]

def fetch_related_news(keywords):

    query = ' OR '.join(keywords[:3])  # Limit to top 3

    url = f'https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q={query}&language=en&apiKey={NEWS_API_KEY}'

    res = requests.get(url)

    if res.status_code != 200:

        return []

    return [a['title'] + ' ' + a['description'] for a in res.json().get('articles', [])]

def calculate_authenticity(article_keywords, related_news):

    related_text = ' '.join(related_news)

    matches = [kw for kw in article_keywords if kw.lower() in related_text.lower()]

    return int((len(matches) / len(article_keywords)) * 100) if article_keywords else 0

# ---------- GUI ----------

class NewsCheckerApp:

    def __init__(self, root):

        self.root = root

        self.root.title("🕵️ News Authenticity Checker")

        tk.Label(root, text="Paste News Article URL:").pack()

        self.url_entry = tk.Entry(root, width=60)

        self.url_entry.pack(pady=5)

        tk.Button(root, text="🔍 Check Authenticity", command=self.check_news).pack(pady=10)

        self.result_label = tk.Label(root, text="", font=("Arial", 12, "bold"))

        self.result_label.pack(pady=20)

    def check_news(self):

        url = self.url_entry.get().strip()

        if not url:

            messagebox.showerror("Error", "Please enter a news URL.")

            return

        try:

            article = Article(url)

            article.download()

            article.parse()

            content = article.text

            article_keywords = extract_keywords(content)

            related_news = fetch_related_news(article_keywords)

            score = calculate_authenticity(article_keywords, related_news)

            result = f"✅ Authenticity Score: {score}%"

            if score < 40:

                result += "\n⚠️ This article may not be widely reported."

            else:

                result += "\n👍 Seems consistent with other sources."

            self.result_label.config(text=result)

        except Exception as e:

            messagebox.showerror("Error", str(e))

# ---------- Run App ----------

if __name__ == "__main__":

    root = tk.Tk()

    app = NewsCheckerApp(root)

    root.mainloop()