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, ) 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 = "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): with open(API_KEYS_FILE, "r") as f: try: return json.load(f) except Exception: return {} 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: return key in truthx_api_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 truthx_api_keys = load_truthx_api_keys() # ============================== # TEXT PREPROCESSING # ============================== def preprocess_text(text: str) -> str: """Lowercase, remove non-alpha, strip stopwords, stem.""" 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 # ========================= 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 # ========================= 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 # ========================= 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) # ========================= 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) # ====================================================== try: nlp_model = pickle.load( open(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NLP", "model2.pkl"), "rb") ) nlp_vector = pickle.load( open(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NLP", "tfidfvect2.pkl"), "rb") ) print(f"[OK] NLP model loaded ({1 if nlp_model else 0})") except Exception as e: nlp_model = nlp_vector = None print(f"[WARN] NLP model not loaded: {e}") def predict_nlp(text: str) -> list: if not nlp_model or not nlp_vector: return [] vec = nlp_vector.transform([preprocess_text(text)]) pred = nlp_model.predict(vec)[0] decision = nlp_model.decision_function(vec)[0] conf = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-abs(decision))) 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) # ====================================================== # SAFE TOKENIZER # ====================================================== def safe_load_tokenizer(path): try: return pickle.load(open(path, "rb")) except Exception as e: print(f"[TOKENIZER ERROR] {e}") print("[FIX] Using fallback tokenizer (reduced accuracy)") class SimpleTokenizer: def texts_to_sequences(self, texts): return [[1] * len(t.split()) for t in texts] return SimpleTokenizer() # ====================================================== # MODEL 2 — HYBRID (FIXED) # ====================================================== class HybridEnsemble: DIRS = [ (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "HYBRID"), HybridModel_A), (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "HYBRID_"), HybridModel_B), ] 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 path, model_class in self.DIRS: try: tok_path, cfg_path, model_path = None, None, None for f in os.listdir(path): f_lower = f.lower() if "tokenizer" in f_lower: tok_path = os.path.join(path, f) elif "config" in f_lower: cfg_path = os.path.join(path, f) elif "hybrid_model" in f_lower: model_path = os.path.join(path, f) if not tok_path or not cfg_path or not model_path: continue 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("[OK] Hybrid model loaded") except Exception: 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_paths = [ os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NAIVE_", "nb_tfidf.pkl"), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NAIVE_", "nb_count.pkl"), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NAIVE_", "passive_aggressive.pkl"), os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "NAIVE_", "best_passive_aggressive.pkl"), ] naive_models = [] for _p in _naive_paths: try: naive_models.append(pickle.load(open(_p, "rb"))) except Exception: pass print(f"[OK] Naive models loaded ({len(naive_models)})") def predict_naive(text: str) -> list: results = [] for model in naive_models: try: probs = model.predict_proba([text])[0] pred, conf = int(np.argmax(probs)), float(probs.max()) except Exception: d = model.decision_function([text])[0] pred = 1 if d > 0 else 0 conf = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-abs(d))) results.append(("Fake News" if pred == 0 else "Real News", float(conf))) return results # ====================================================== # MODEL 4 — BERT # ====================================================== BERT_CACHE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~/.cache/huggingface"), "hub", "models--bert-base-uncased", "snapshots", "86b5e0934494bd15c9632b12f734a8a67f723594") bert_tokenizer = BertTokenizerFast.from_pretrained(BERT_CACHE_PATH, local_files_only=True) _bert_base = BertModel.from_pretrained(BERT_CACHE_PATH, local_files_only=True).to(device) print("[OK] BERT base loaded") 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(path: str) -> BERT_Arch: model = BERT_Arch(_bert_base) if os.path.exists(path): model.load_state_dict(torch.load(path, map_location=device, weights_only=False)) model.eval() return model bert_models = None def get_bert_models(): global bert_models if bert_models is None: print("[BERT] Lazy loading...") bert_models = [ _load_bert_ckpt(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "BERT", "bert_model.pt")), _load_bert_ckpt(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "BERT", "best_model.pt")), _load_bert_ckpt( os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "BERT", "c2_new_model_weights.pt") ), ] print(f"[OK] BERT loaded ({len(bert_models)})") return bert_models # print(f"[OK] BERT checkpoints loaded ({len(bert_models)})") def predict_bert(text: str) -> list: 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() # Training convention: 1 = Fake News, 0 = Real News 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...") path = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "model", "DISTILBERT", "distilbert_model") distil_tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(path) distil_model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(path).to( device ) distil_model.eval() print(f"[OK] DistilBERT loaded ({1 if distil_model else 0})") return distil_model, distil_tokenizer def predict_distil(text: str) -> list: try: model, tokenizer = get_distil() 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/": "Individual model prediction (nlp, hybrid, naive, bert, distilbert)", "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": tok.num_words} if hasattr(tok, "num_words") else {"max_len": ml, "vocab_size": "unknown"} for tok, ml in zip(ensemble.tokenizers, ensemble.max_lens) ], } ) except Exception as e: return jsonify({"error": str(e)}), 500 @app.route("/generate_key", methods=["POST"]) def generate_key(): """Generate and persist a new UUID API key.""" body = request.json if isinstance(request.json, dict) else {} user_id = body.get("user_id", "anonymous") new_key = str(uuid.uuid4()) truthx_api_keys[new_key] = user_id save_truthx_api_keys(truthx_api_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("/verify", methods=["POST"]) @require_api_key def verify(): """ Run full ensemble on submitted news article. Header : X-API-KEY: Body : { "title": "...", "text": "..." } """ 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() external = data.get("title", text[:100]) title = data.get("title", text) if not text: return jsonify({"error": "Empty text"}), 400 full_doc = f"{title} {text}".strip() # Wrap each model in try/except so one failure doesn't kill the whole request 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), } 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(external) final_accuracy = round((model_conf * 0.7 + ext_score * 0.3) * 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 # ============================== # RUN # ============================== if __name__ == "__main__": app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=5000, debug=False)