This project takes submissions about Ukraine from subreddits like r/CombatFootage, r/UkraineWarVideoReport, r/ukraine, r/worldnews, r/UkraineInvasionVideos and r/UkrainevRussia and translates them into a heatmap where most of the stuff related to the war in Ukraine is happening. You can see that heatmap here. It updates every 30 minutes.

The heatmap is sadly not a good way of visualizing the war in ukraine, and activity on reddit is slowly dying. For these reasons I decided to shut the automatic updates down.

• Read this reddit post from r/ukraine for a big list of charities to donate to
• Do not spread misinformation and do report misinformation
• You can help the IT ARMY of Ukraine to fight against russia (at your own risk)
• Checkout all the other projects on github related to ukraine and the invasion

1. Install dependencies with pip install dotenv geopy praw

   NOTE: You will also have to install my folium fork.

2. Create .env file and populate it with:

   REDDIT_USERNAME=<your reddit username>
   REDDIT_PASSWORD=<your reddit password>
   REDDIT_API_ID=<your reddit application id>
   REDDIT_API_SECRECT=<your reddit application secret>

3. Create the empty directory data/historic

4. Run with python src/main.py