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Astrodetection

Astrodetection is a Python library designed for detecting astroturfing clues from lists of posts (mainly on X up to now, but not exclusively)

Installation

Pip

pip install "astrodetection[standard]"

or

pip install "astrodetection[light]"

Conda

  1. Use the YAML file to configure the environment with conda:

    conda create -n astrodetection_env
    conda activate astrodetection_env
    conda env update -f environment_standard.yml
    

Note: the environment_standard.yml configuration file uses FAISS and Fasttext libraries for VIGINUM D3LTA implementation

**If you have compatibility issues, prefer environment_light.yml and use astrodetection_light module

Usage

You can import directly the main functions:

from astrodetection import semantic_faiss, prepare_input_data, compute_bot_likelihood_metrics, create_network

Or use them directly:

import glob
import pandas as pd
import os
import numpy as np
import astrodetection

# Load a single JSON file into a DataFrame
file = "file_path"  # Select the first file
df = pd.read_json(file)
df.index = df.index.astype(str)  # Compatibility with d3lta

# Preprocess the DataFrame
df = df[df['tweet'].str.len() > 100]
df = df[df['username'] != 'grok']
df.index = df.index.astype(str)

# Compute matches and scores
df_filtered, df_emb = astrodetection.prepare_input_data(df, embeddings=df['emb'])

matches, df_cluster = astrodetection.semantic_faiss(
    df_filtered.rename(columns={'tweet': 'original'}),
    min_size_txt=0,
    df_embeddings_use=df_emb,
    threshold_grapheme=0.8,
    threshold_language=0.715,
    threshold_semantic=0.9
) #function taken from D3LTA 

scores = astrodetection.compute_bot_likelihood_metrics(df, matches=matches)

# Create a network
network = astrodetection.create_network(matches, df)

New changes

  1. semantic_faiss function can now take detect only copypastas based on levenshtein distance, ignoring embeddings, if "skip" is passed as argument in df_embeddings_use field.

  2. compute_bot_likelihood_metrics function can now take columns' names as arguments for more customization

  3. compute_bot_likelihood_metrics now returns high_following_followers_ratio (%), the share of rows whose following/followers ratio exceeds fw_ratio_threshold (default 10).

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