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Release Notes: Better looking article images, more shareable request templates, and DocumentCloud improvements

Release Notes: Better looking article images, more shareable request templates, and DocumentCloud improvements

by Mitchell Kotler and Thad Kerosky
February 01, 2022

The tech team has been busy working on improvements to both our FOIA filing platform as well as DocumentCloud, our document analysis and hosting tool. For MuckRock, we gave a nice graphical bump to our article images — doubling the resolution — and fixed a bug that prevented sharing cloned request links with logged-out users. With DocumentCloud, the incorrectly labeled “rotate” button now does what it says on the tin. Plus: More localized versions coming soon!

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Cómo correr Sidekick

Cómo correr Sidekick

by Mitchell Kotler
December 07, 2021

Alguna vez ¿has tenido una pila de documentos y has querido comenzar a concentrarte rápidamente en una parte determinada de material? ¿Te gustaría contar con ayuda para trabajar solamente en los contratos, o quizás, los informes policiales que detallan un determinado tipo de encuentro, o bien, poder dividir rápidamente las cartas de respaldo de aquellas negativas dirigidas a un político sobre un tema clave?

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Categorize DocumentCloud collections in real-time with SideKick

Categorize DocumentCloud collections in real-time with SideKick

by Mitchell Kotler
November 30, 2021

Ever get a pile of documents and want to start quickly honing in on a certain segment of material? Wish you had a little help pulling out just contracts, or maybe police reports that detail a certain type of encounter? With MuckRock’s DocumentCloud platform, that’s a challenge we know all too well — and we have a new solution to help.

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Release Notes: A smattering of MuckRock bug fixes and improvements

Release Notes: A smattering of MuckRock bug fixes and improvements

by Mitchell Kotler and Michael Morisy
September 15, 2020

In late August, we pushed out a major upgrade bringing MuckRock from Django 1.11 to Django 2.1 and from Python 2 to 3. While these updates didn’t offer much new functionality, they were important to help us continue keeping MuckRock secure and giving us an updated, modern platform to build on.

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Release Notes: A Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud Beta

Release Notes: A Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud Beta

by Mitchell Kotler and Michael Morisy
June 16, 2020

Get up to speed faster with the DocumentCloud Beta with our updated Python wrapper for using the API.

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