ReliaCheck | Devpost

Landing Page where you enter url
Answer few questions for us to get better understanding of your requirements
Some more information
The final result which the api returns

Inspiration

We were inspired to do this project while we were doing research projects and had trouble picking reliable sources to support our research papers.

What it does

ReliaCheck is meant to help people determine how reliable an author of a news article/journal/publishing is by cross-checking it with other websites and sources that have similar content to the original author's work. We then process all the data using state-of-the-art technologies and return a score out of 5 on how reliable the author is and a CRAAP score, which is a score of how reliable the source is.

How we built it

We used Next.js for the front end and Flask(built with Python) for the back end and all the data processing steps.

Challenges we ran into

Some of the biggest challenges that we ran into included not knowing how to determine how to give a score to the user, and how to scrape the internet for other similar sources.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the fact that this project can be used by many more people than just teens, but can be used by university students and adults doing higher-level research.

What's next for ReliaCheck

We plan on using better analysis algorithms to evaluate the score of the author and the CRAAP score of the source so that this website can become very reliable and mainstream in the future.