dennyjansson/superdesk repository overview

⁠Superdesk

Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organizations of any size. See the Superdesk website⁠ for more information.

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The Superdesk server provides the API to process all client requests. The client provides the user interface. Server and client are separate applications using different technologies.

Find more information about the client configuration in the README file of the repo: github.com/superdesk/superdesk-client-core⁠

⁠Requirements

• MongoDB
• ElasticSearch (1.7.x - 2.4.x)
• Redis
• Python (>= 3.5)
• Node.js (with npm)

⁠General installation steps look like:

path=~/superdesk
git clone https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk.git $path

# server
cd $path/server
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py app:initialize_data
python manage.py users:create -u admin -p admin -e '[email protected]' --admin
honcho start
# if you need some data
python manage.py app:prepopulate

# client
cd $path/client
npm install
grunt server

# open http://localhost:9000 in browser

⁠Installation on fresh Ubuntu 16.04

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superdesk/fireq/files/superdesk/install | sudo bash
# Open http://<ip_or_domain> in browser
# login: admin
# password: admin

More options and details:

• for users⁠
• for developers⁠

⁠Questions and issues

• Our issue tracker⁠ is only for bug reports and feature requests.
• Anything else, such as questions or general feedback, should be posted in the forum⁠.

⁠A special thanks to...

Users, developers and development partners that have contributed to the Superdesk project. Also, to all the other amazing open-source projects that make Superdesk possible!

⁠License

Superdesk is available under the AGPL version 3⁠ open source license.