Aigents is a news monitoring engine. It crawls trusted sites looking for topics of interest and also supports social media integration for social relevance of news articles. The main engine can be found on Github and it offers an http API for interaction. The aigents.com website is an application with a GUI that makes it easy to use the Aigents engine.

Users can create accounts using an email address, a secret question and answer which are used for logging in. Each account can have its own list of topics of interest, trusted list of sites and social media integration. Based on these, the engine will crawl trusted sites looking for users' topics, correlate news with what friends are sharing and provide the user with a list of news articles from thirdparty sites in various formats.

This repo contains a minimalistic SingularityNET service wrapper for the aigents engine deployed at https://aigents.icog-labs.com to serve as one of the componenents for delivering news to the Xccelerando website.

The service is preferred to run in a container for which a Dockerfile is provided here. There's also a script which can take care of building the image, creating the container (launching the service) and building the protobufs.

The manage script has the following options

    Usage: bash manage.sh OPTION [LABEL] [SERVICE_PORT]
      Options:
        build        build the docker image
        run          run the snet service (start container)
        stop         stop the snet service (stop container)
        build-proto  build the proto files

      LABEL  :  image and container label (optional - default=date)

      SERVICE_PORT  :  port to expose the service through (optional - default=9999)

If no label is provided during build and run, the script will create a docker image and container named snet_aigents with the day's month and day as the tag. The build-proto option is mainly for development. It builds the aigents.proto file for Python and PHP and keep them in service_spec

    DEV
    bash manage.sh build snet_aigents_with_daemon_$USER
    
    PROD
    bash manage.sh build snet-aigents-service

    DEV
    supervisord -c supervisord-dev.conf
    
    PROD
    supervisord -c supervisord-prod.conf 

There are example client codes for both Python and PHP. The PHP is chosen for integration as a Wordpress plugin (Option 2 of XND design)

It's best if the PHP client runs outside a container because usually webservers are of a limited capacity and running a container might not be very ideal. If one wantes to go through running the PHP GRPC client directly then the follwing instruction will be useful for setting PHP GRPC up.

This instruction assumes the reader is using Ubuntu 18.04 with PHP 7.2

Let's begin by installing PHP 7.2 (the following commands require sudo)

    apt-get update
    apt-get install php7.2

We need phpize and php-pear for PHP extension management. (the following commands require sudo)

    apt-get install php7.2-dev php-pear

Then using the pecl command we install protobuf and grpc (the following commands require sudo)

    pecl install protobuf
    pecl install grpc

Once the above two commands have sucessfuly installed protobuf and grpc, we need to let PHP know to load those extensions. First create two files in /etc/php/7.2/mods-available named grpc.ini and protobuf.ini with each containing the following lines respectively: grpc.ini:

    extension=grpc.so

protobuf.ini

    extension=protobuf.so

Once this is done, we need to enable the modules so that they can be used by PHP. In order to do that, we can use the command phpenmod as:

    phpenmod protobuf
    phpenmod grpc

To make sure that it's successfully installed and working you can run:

    php -i | grep grpc

If everything went well, you will see something that contains:

    grpc support => enabled
    grpc module version => 1.26.0

Now you can use the test_get_json_news.php

For questions and comments: Dagim Sisay [email protected]