TruthX-Detector / app.py
Ankit19102004
Clean TruthX API deployment without model weights
e70b7e5
import pickle, json, uuid, re, traceback, nltk # noqa: E401
import numpy as np
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import requests
from urllib.parse import quote
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify
from functools import wraps
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from nltk.stem.porter import PorterStemmer
import sys
import os
from transformers import (
AutoModel,
AutoTokenizer,
AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
BertTokenizerFast,
BertModel,
)
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
torch.set_num_threads(1)
torch.set_grad_enabled(False)
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
# ==============================
# APP INIT
# ==============================
load_dotenv()
app = Flask(__name__)
device = torch.device("cpu")
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
API_KEYS_FILE = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "api_keys.json")
# ==============================
# NLTK
# ==============================
try:
nltk.download("stopwords", quiet=True)
all_stopwords = stopwords.words("english")
except Exception:
all_stopwords = []
ps = PorterStemmer()
# ==============================
# EXTERNAL API KEYS
# ==============================
NEWSDATA_KEY = os.getenv("NEWSDATA_API_KEY")
NEWSAPI_KEY = os.getenv("NEWSAPI_API_KEY")
GNEWS_KEY = os.getenv("GNEWS_API_KEY")
MEDIASTACK_KEY = os.getenv("MEDIASTACK_API_KEY")
# ==============================
# API KEY MANAGEMENT
# ==============================
def load_truthx_api_keys() -> dict:
if os.path.exists(API_KEYS_FILE):
try:
with open(API_KEYS_FILE, "r") as f:
data = json.load(f)
return data if isinstance(data, dict) else {}
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERROR] Loading API keys: {e}")
return {}
else:
# Create empty file if not exists
save_truthx_api_keys({})
return {}
def save_truthx_api_keys(keys: dict) -> None:
try:
with open(API_KEYS_FILE, "w") as f:
json.dump(keys, f)
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERROR] Saving API keys: {e}")
def verify_api_key(key: str) -> bool:
# Always reload to get newly generated keys
current_keys = load_truthx_api_keys()
return key in current_keys
def require_api_key(f):
@wraps(f)
def decorated_function(*args, **kwargs):
# Check header
api_key = request.headers.get("X-API-KEY")
# Fallback to query param
if not api_key:
api_key = request.args.get("api_key")
if not api_key or not verify_api_key(api_key):
return jsonify({"error": "Invalid or missing API key. Use /generate_key"}), 401
return f(*args, **kwargs)
return decorated_function
# ==============================
# TEXT PREPROCESSING
# ==============================
def preprocess_text(text: str) -> str:
"""Lowercase, remove non-alpha, strip stopwords, stem."""
if not text:
return ""
tokens = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z]", " ", text).lower().split()
return " ".join(ps.stem(w) for w in tokens if w not in all_stopwords)
# ==============================
# PAD SEQUENCES
# ==============================
def pad_sequences(sequences: list, maxlen: int, padding: str = "pre") -> np.ndarray:
result = []
for seq in sequences:
seq = list(seq)
if len(seq) >= maxlen:
seq = seq[-maxlen:]
else:
pad = [0] * (maxlen - len(seq))
seq = (pad + seq) if padding == "pre" else (seq + pad)
result.append(seq)
return np.array(result, dtype=np.int32)
# ==============================
# EXTERNAL NEWS VERIFICATION
# ==============================
def check_external_news(query: str) -> float:
"""Improved external verification with weighted scoring + Google RSS"""
if not query:
return 0.0
# 🔹 Full query
encoded = quote(query)
# 🔹 Smart keyword extraction (for Mediastack + Google)
stop_words = {"the", "is", "in", "on", "at", "a", "an", "of", "for", "to", "and"}
keywords = [w for w in query.lower().split() if w not in stop_words]
simple_query = " ".join(keywords[:3])
encoded_simple = quote(simple_query)
# =========================
# SCORES
# =========================
newsdata = 0
newsapi = 0
gnews = 0
mediastack = 0
google = 0
# =========================
# 1. NEWSDATA
# =========================
if NEWSDATA_KEY:
try:
r = requests.get(
f"https://newsdata.io/api/1/news?apikey={NEWSDATA_KEY}&q={encoded}",
timeout=5,
)
if r.status_code == 200 and r.json().get("totalResults", 0) > 0:
newsdata = 1
except Exception:
pass
# =========================
# 2. NEWSAPI
# =========================
if NEWSAPI_KEY:
try:
r = requests.get(
f"https://newsapi.org/v2/everything?q={encoded}&apiKey={NEWSAPI_KEY}&pageSize=1",
timeout=5,
)
if r.status_code == 200 and r.json().get("totalResults", 0) > 0:
newsapi = 1
except Exception:
pass
# =========================
# 3. GNEWS
# =========================
if GNEWS_KEY:
try:
r = requests.get(
f"https://gnews.io/api/v4/search?q={encoded}&token={GNEWS_KEY}&max=1",
timeout=5,
)
if r.status_code == 200 and r.json().get("totalArticles", 0) > 0:
gnews = 1
except Exception:
pass
# =========================
# 4. MEDIASTACK (FIXED)
# =========================
if MEDIASTACK_KEY:
try:
r = requests.get(
f"https://api.mediastack.com/v1/news?access_key={MEDIASTACK_KEY}&keywords={encoded_simple}&limit=1",
timeout=5,
)
total = r.json().get("pagination", {}).get("total", 0)
# 🔥 Ignore noisy results
if r.status_code == 200 and 0 < total < 5000:
mediastack = 1
except Exception:
pass
# =========================
# 5. GOOGLE NEWS RSS ⭐
# =========================
try:
r = requests.get(
f"https://news.google.com/rss/search?q={encoded_simple}",
timeout=5,
)
root = ET.fromstring(r.content)
items = root.findall(".//item")
if len(items) > 0:
google = 1
except Exception:
pass
# =========================
# FINAL WEIGHTED SCORE
# =========================
score = (
newsdata * 0.35
+ newsapi * 0.15
+ gnews * 0.25
+ mediastack * 0.05
+ google * 0.2
)
return round(score, 4)
# ======================================================
# MODEL 1 — NLP (TF-IDF + SVM)
# ======================================================
nlp_model = None
nlp_vector = None
def load_nlp():
global nlp_model, nlp_vector
if nlp_model is None:
try:
repo_id = "Ankit74990/TruthX-NLP"
m_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="model2.pkl")
v_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="tfidfvect2.pkl")
nlp_model = pickle.load(open(m_path, "rb"))
nlp_vector = pickle.load(open(v_path, "rb"))
print(f"[OK] NLP model loaded")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[WARN] NLP model not loaded: {e}")
def predict_nlp(text: str) -> list:
load_nlp()
if not nlp_model or not nlp_vector:
return []
vec = nlp_vector.transform([preprocess_text(text)])
pred = nlp_model.predict(vec)[0]
try:
decision = nlp_model.decision_function(vec)[0]
conf = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-abs(decision)))
except:
conf = 0.8
return [("Real News" if pred == 1 else "Fake News", float(conf))]
# ======================================================
# MODEL 2 — HYBRID
# ======================================================
class HybridModel_A(nn.Module):
"""CNN → MaxPool → BiLSTM (your original correct model)"""
def __init__(self, vocab_size: int, embed_dim: int = 256):
super().__init__()
self.embedding = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_dim)
self.conv = nn.Conv1d(embed_dim, 256, kernel_size=5)
self.pool = nn.MaxPool1d(2)
self.lstm = nn.LSTM(256, 128, batch_first=True, bidirectional=True)
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(256, 128)
self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.5)
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(128, 2)
def forward(self, x):
x = self.embedding(x)
x = x.permute(0, 2, 1)
x = torch.relu(self.conv(x))
x = self.pool(x)
x = x.permute(0, 2, 1)
x, _ = self.lstm(x)
x = x[:, -1, :]
x = torch.relu(self.fc1(x))
x = self.dropout(x)
return self.fc2(x)
class HybridModel_B(nn.Module):
"""CNN + LSTM PARALLEL (second file model)"""
def __init__(self, vocab_size: int, embed_dim: int = 256):
super().__init__()
self.embedding = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_dim, padding_idx=0)
self.conv = nn.Conv1d(embed_dim, 256, kernel_size=5)
self.lstm = nn.LSTM(256, 128, batch_first=True, bidirectional=True)
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(256, 128)
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(128, 2)
def forward(self, x):
x_embed = self.embedding(x)
# CNN branch
x_cnn = torch.relu(self.conv(x_embed.permute(0, 2, 1)))
x_cnn = torch.max(x_cnn, dim=2)[0]
# LSTM branch
x_lstm, _ = self.lstm(x_embed)
x_lstm = x_lstm[:, -1, :]
x = x_cnn + x_lstm
x = torch.relu(self.fc1(x))
return self.fc2(x)
# ======================================================
# MODEL 2 — HYBRID (FIXED)
# ======================================================
class HybridEnsemble:
DIRS = [
("Ankit74990/TruthX-HYBRID", HybridModel_A, "hybrid_model1.pt"),
("Ankit74990/TruthX-HYBRID2", HybridModel_B, "hybrid_model2.pt"),
]
def __init__(self):
self.models = []
self.tokenizers = []
self.max_lens = []
print("[HYBRID] Loading models...")
self._load_all()
print(f"[OK] Hybrid models loaded ({len(self.models)})")
def _load_all(self):
for repo_id, model_class, m_name in self.DIRS:
try:
tok_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="tokenizer.pkl")
cfg_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="config.pkl")
model_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=m_name)
try:
tok_data = pickle.load(open(tok_path, "rb"))
if isinstance(tok_data, dict) and "word_index" in tok_data:
class CleanTokenizer:
def __init__(self, word_index):
self.word_index = word_index
def texts_to_sequences(self, texts):
return [[self.word_index.get(w, 0) for w in text.split()] for text in texts]
tok = CleanTokenizer(tok_data["word_index"])
else:
raise Exception()
except Exception:
class SimpleTokenizer:
def texts_to_sequences(self, texts):
return [[1] * len(t.split()) for t in texts]
tok = SimpleTokenizer()
cfg = pickle.load(open(cfg_path, "rb"))
vocab_size = cfg.get("max_words") or cfg.get("vocab_size")
max_len = cfg.get("max_len")
if not vocab_size or not max_len:
continue
model = model_class(vocab_size).to(device)
model.load_state_dict(torch.load(model_path, map_location=device, weights_only=True))
model.eval()
self.models.append(model)
self.tokenizers.append(tok)
self.max_lens.append(max_len)
print(f"[OK] Hybrid model loaded from {repo_id}")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERR] Failed to load hybrid from {repo_id}: {e}")
continue
def predict(self, text: str) -> list:
if not self.models:
return []
results = []
for model, tok, max_len in zip(self.models, self.tokenizers, self.max_lens):
try:
seq = tok.texts_to_sequences([text])
padded = pad_sequences(seq, maxlen=max_len, padding="pre")
x = torch.tensor(padded, dtype=torch.long).to(device)
with torch.no_grad():
probs = torch.softmax(model(x), dim=1)
conf, pred = torch.max(probs, dim=1)
label = "Real News" if pred.item() == 1 else "Fake News"
results.append((label, float(conf.item())))
except Exception:
continue
return results
hybrid_ensemble = None
def get_hybrid():
global hybrid_ensemble
if hybrid_ensemble is None:
print("[HYBRID] Lazy loading...")
hybrid_ensemble = HybridEnsemble()
return hybrid_ensemble
def predict_hybrid(text: str) -> list:
return get_hybrid().predict(text)
# ======================================================
# MODEL 3 — NAIVE (Naive Bayes / Passive-Aggressive)
# ======================================================
naive_models = []
def load_naive():
global naive_models
if not naive_models:
repo_id = "Ankit74990/TruthX-NAIVE"
files = ["nb_tfidf.pkl", "nb_count.pkl", "passive_aggressive.pkl", "best_passive_aggressive.pkl"]
for f in files:
try:
p = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=f)
naive_models.append(pickle.load(open(p, "rb")))
except:
pass
print(f"[OK] Naive models loaded ({len(naive_models)})")
def predict_naive(text: str) -> list:
load_naive()
results = []
for model in naive_models:
try:
probs = model.predict_proba([text])[0]
pred, conf = int(np.argmax(probs)), float(probs.max())
except Exception:
try:
d = model.decision_function([text])[0]
pred = 1 if d > 0 else 0
conf = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-abs(d)))
except:
pred = 0
conf = 0.5
results.append(("Fake News" if pred == 0 else "Real News", float(conf)))
return results
# ======================================================
# MODEL 4 — BERT
# ======================================================
bert_tokenizer = None
_bert_base = None
def load_bert_base():
global bert_tokenizer, _bert_base
if _bert_base is None:
repo_id = "bert-base-uncased"
try:
bert_tokenizer = BertTokenizerFast.from_pretrained(repo_id)
_bert_base = BertModel.from_pretrained(repo_id).to(device)
print("[OK] BERT base loaded")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERR] BERT base fail: {e}")
class BERT_Arch(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, bert):
super().__init__()
self.bert = bert
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(768, 512)
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(512, 2)
def forward(self, sent_id, mask):
x = self.bert(sent_id, attention_mask=mask)["pooler_output"]
return self.fc2(self.fc1(x))
def _load_bert_ckpt(repo_id: str, filename: str) -> BERT_Arch:
load_bert_base()
if _bert_base is None:
return None
model = BERT_Arch(_bert_base)
try:
path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
model.load_state_dict(torch.load(path, map_location=device, weights_only=False))
except:
pass
model.eval()
return model
bert_models = None
def get_bert_models():
global bert_models
if bert_models is None:
print("[BERT] Lazy loading...")
repo_id = "Ankit74990/TruthX-BERT"
bert_models = [
_load_bert_ckpt(repo_id, "bert_model.pt"),
_load_bert_ckpt(repo_id, "best_model.pt"),
_load_bert_ckpt(repo_id, "c2_new_model_weights.pt"),
]
# Filter out failed loads
bert_models = [m for m in bert_models if m is not None]
print(f"[OK] BERT loaded ({len(bert_models)})")
return bert_models
def predict_bert(text: str) -> list:
load_bert_base()
if bert_tokenizer is None:
return []
tokens = bert_tokenizer(
[text],
max_length=128,
padding="max_length",
truncation=True,
return_tensors="pt",
)
tokens = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in tokens.items()}
results = []
for model in get_bert_models():
with torch.no_grad():
out = model(tokens["input_ids"], tokens["attention_mask"])
probs = torch.softmax(out, dim=1)
pred = torch.argmax(probs, dim=1).item()
conf = probs.max().item()
results.append(("Fake News" if pred == 1 else "Real News", float(conf)))
return results
# ======================================================
# MODEL 5 — DISTILBERT (HuggingFace fine-tuned)
# ======================================================
distil_model = None
distil_tokenizer = None
def get_distil():
global distil_model, distil_tokenizer
if distil_model is None:
print("[DISTIL] Lazy loading...")
repo_id = "Ankit74990/TruthX-DISTILBERT"
try:
distil_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_id)
distil_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(repo_id).to(device)
distil_model.eval()
print(f"[OK] DistilBERT loaded")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERR] DistilBERT fail: {e}")
return distil_model, distil_tokenizer
def predict_distil(text: str) -> list:
try:
model, tokenizer = get_distil()
if model is None or tokenizer is None:
return []
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, padding=True, max_length=256)
inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
with torch.no_grad():
out = model(**inputs)
probs = torch.softmax(out.logits, dim=1)
conf, pred = torch.max(probs, dim=1)
return [("Real News" if pred.item() == 1 else "Fake News", float(conf.item()))]
except Exception:
return []
# ======================================================
# MODEL 6 — ROBERTA (HuggingFace fine-tuned)
# ======================================================
roberta_model = None
roberta_tokenizer = None
def get_roberta():
global roberta_model, roberta_tokenizer
if roberta_model is None:
print("[ROBERTA] Lazy loading...")
repo_id = "Ankit74990/TruthX-ROBERTA"
try:
roberta_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_id)
roberta_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(repo_id).to(device)
roberta_model.eval()
print(f"[OK] RoBERTa loaded")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[ERR] RoBERTa fail: {e}")
return roberta_model, roberta_tokenizer
def predict_roberta(text: str) -> list:
try:
model, tokenizer = get_roberta()
if model is None or tokenizer is None:
return []
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, padding=True, max_length=256)
inputs = {k: v.to(device) for k, v in inputs.items()}
with torch.no_grad():
out = model(**inputs)
probs = torch.softmax(out.logits, dim=1)
conf, pred = torch.max(probs, dim=1)
return [("Real News" if pred.item() == 1 else "Fake News", float(conf.item()))]
except Exception:
return []
# ======================================================
# ENSEMBLE FUSION
# ======================================================
def final_ensemble(all_results: list) -> tuple:
"""Sum confidence scores per label; highest total wins."""
fake = sum(c for l, c in all_results if "Fake" in l) # noqa: E741
real = sum(c for l, c in all_results if "Real" in l) # noqa: E741
total = fake + real
if total == 0:
return "Real News", 0.5
label = "Fake News" if fake > real else "Real News"
return label, round(max(fake, real) / total, 4)
def format_output(raw: dict) -> dict:
return {
k: [{"prediction": l, "confidence": round(c, 4)} for l, c in v] # noqa: E741
for k, v in raw.items()
}
# ==============================
# ROUTES
# ==============================
@app.route("/", methods=["GET"])
def index():
return jsonify(
{
"message": "Welcome to TruthX API",
"endpoints": {
"POST /generate_key": "Get a new API key",
"POST /verify": "Full ensemble prediction (all models)",
"POST /predict/<model>": "Individual model prediction (nlp, hybrid, naive, bert, distilbert, roberta)",
"GET /test_hybrid": "Check how many hybrid models are loaded",
},
}
)
@app.route("/test_hybrid", methods=["GET"])
def test_hybrid():
"""Quick diagnostic: check loaded hybrid models."""
try:
ensemble = get_hybrid()
return jsonify(
{
"hybrid_models_loaded": len(ensemble.models),
"configs": [
{"max_len": ml, "vocab_size": "loaded"}
for ml in ensemble.max_lens
],
}
)
except Exception as e:
return jsonify({"error": str(e)}), 500
@app.route("/generate_key", methods=["GET", "POST"])
def generate_key():
"""Generate and persist a new UUID API key."""
new_key = str(uuid.uuid4())
keys = load_truthx_api_keys()
keys[new_key] = "user"
save_truthx_api_keys(keys)
return jsonify(
{
"status": "success",
"api_key": new_key,
"message": "Store this key — required for all /predict and /verify",
}
)
def _get_request_text():
data = request.get_json(silent=True)
if not data or "text" not in data:
return None, "Provide 'text' in request body"
text = data["text"].strip()
if not text:
return None, "Empty text"
return text, None
@app.route("/predict/nlp", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_nlp_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_nlp(text)})
@app.route("/predict/hybrid", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_hybrid_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_hybrid(text)})
@app.route("/predict/naive", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_naive_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_naive(text)})
@app.route("/predict/bert", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_bert_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_bert(text)})
@app.route("/predict/distilbert", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_distilbert_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_distil(text)})
@app.route("/predict/roberta", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def predict_roberta_endpoint():
text, err = _get_request_text()
if err:
return jsonify({"error": err}), 400
return jsonify({"prediction": predict_roberta(text)})
@app.route("/verify", methods=["POST"])
@require_api_key
def verify():
try:
data = request.get_json(silent=True)
if not data or "text" not in data:
return jsonify({"error": "Provide 'text' in request body"}), 400
text = data["text"].strip()
title = data.get("title", text[:100]).strip()
if not text:
return jsonify({"error": "Empty text"}), 400
full_doc = f"{title} {text}".strip()
def safe(fn):
try: return fn(full_doc)
except Exception as e:
print(f"[MODEL ERROR] {fn.__name__}: {e}")
return []
raw = {
"nlp": safe(predict_nlp),
"hybrid": safe(predict_hybrid),
"naive": safe(predict_naive),
"bert": safe(predict_bert),
"distilbert": safe(predict_distil),
"roberta": safe(predict_roberta),
}
all_preds = [p for preds in raw.values() for p in preds]
final_label, model_conf = final_ensemble(all_preds)
ext_score = check_external_news(title)
# Weighted ensemble: 40% models, 60% external as per user request
final_accuracy = round((model_conf * 0.4 + ext_score * 0.6) * 100, 2)
return jsonify(
{
"title": title,
"prediction": final_label,
"confidence": model_conf,
"accuracy": f"{final_accuracy}%",
"external_score": round(ext_score, 4),
"models": format_output(raw),
}
)
except Exception as e:
traceback.print_exc()
return jsonify({"error": str(e)}), 500
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=7860, debug=False)