https://github.com/simonw/russian-ira-facebook-ads-datasette

Explore 3,500 Facebook ads reported to have been bought by the Russian Internet Research Agency
https://github.com/simonw/russian-ira-facebook-ads-datasette

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Explore 3,500 Facebook ads reported to have been bought by the Russian Internet Research Agency

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/simonw/russian-ira-facebook-ads-datasette
• Owner: simonw
• Created: 2018-07-27T22:36:35.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-08-17T01:15:57.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-06T20:53:48.728Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: datasette
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://russian-ira-facebook-ads.datasettes.com/
• Size: 1.38 MB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Converting irads JSON to Datasette

The House Intelligence Committee released 3,517 Facebook ads that were

reported to have been bought by the Russian Internet Research Agency as a set

of redacted PDF files.

Companion blog post: [Analyzing US Election Russian Facebook Ads](https://simonwillison.net/2018/Aug/6/russian-facebook-ads/)

Ed Summers wrote a parser that converts those PDFs into a JSON file:

https://github.com/umd-mith/irads

The script in this repository downloads that JSON file and converts it into a

SQLite database for use with Datasette. Use it like this:

    pip3 install sqlite-utils

    python3 fetch_and_build_russian_ads.py \

        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/umd-mith/irads/master/site/index.json \

        russian-ads.db

This will produce a SQLite database called `ads.db`. You can then explore it

locally with [Datasette](https://github.com/simonw/datasette) like so:

    pip3 install datasette

    datasette ads.db

To see the full customized interface you will need to install a custom branch of

Datasette plus a custom Datasette plugin. See the Dockerfile, or do this:

    pip3 install https://github.com/simonw/datasette/archive/filter-plugin-hook.zip

    pip3 install datasette-json-html pyyaml

    python3 build_metadata.py

    datasette russian-ads.db \

      -m russian-ads-metadata.json \

      --config default_page_size:50 --config sql_time_limit_ms:3000 \

      --config num_sql_threads:10 --config facet_time_limit_ms:3000 \

      --config allow_sql:off --config force_https_urls:1 \

      --plugins-dir=plugins --static static:static