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
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:
Manual installation
Requirements
These services must be installed, configured and running:
- MongoDB
- ElasticSearch (1.7.x - 2.4.x)
- Redis
- Python (>= 3.5)
- Node.js (with
npm)
On macOS, if you have homebrew installed, simply run: brew install mongodb elasticsearch@2.4 redis python3 node.
Installation steps:
path=~/superdesk
git clone https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk.git $path
# server
cd $path/server
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py app:initialize_data
python3 manage.py users:create -u admin -p admin -e 'admin@example.com' --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
:warning: macOS users
All the above commands need to run inside the Python Virtual Environment, which you can create
using the pyvenv command:
- Run
pyvenv ~/pyvenvto create the files needed to start an environment in the directory~/pyvenv. - Run
. ~/pyvenv/bin/activateto start the virtual environment in the current terminal session.
Now you may run the installation steps from above.
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.