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upbeatBytes/goodnews/briefs.py
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thejayman77 541f59ed6e Option A: typographic editorial tiles + single treated hero image; balance brief topics
Frontend (the premium baseline):
- The hero is now the ONLY image slot. Soft feed images get an atmospheric
  gradient overlay; no over-reliance on inconsistent RSS image quality.
- Every secondary/lane card is a uniform typographic editorial tile: no
  thumbnails, equal visual weight, a faint topic wordmark watermark, a slim
  sage top accent, consistent source, reason text as the trust signal, visible
  Replace with quiet tuning actions. Fixes the jarring mixed-media row rhythm
  and removes muddy thumbnails entirely.

Backend (composition):
- _select_diverse now balances topics: no more than 2 of one topic while other
  topics have candidates (relaxing source then topic caps only to fill), so the
  daily five stop clustering medical/science items. Candidates now carry s.topic.

Tests updated for the topic-balance contract (79 total).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-31 12:10:05 +00:00

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from __future__ import annotations
import sqlite3
from datetime import date
from .paywall import is_paywalled
def build_daily_brief(
conn: sqlite3.Connection,
brief_date: str | None = None,
limit: int = 5,
replace: bool = False,
window_days: int = 3,
) -> int:
target_date = brief_date or date.today().isoformat()
existing = conn.execute("SELECT id FROM daily_briefs WHERE brief_date = ?", (target_date,)).fetchone()
if existing and not replace:
return int(existing["id"])
if existing and replace:
conn.execute("DELETE FROM daily_briefs WHERE id = ?", (existing["id"],))
brief_id = conn.execute(
"INSERT INTO daily_briefs (brief_date, title) VALUES (?, ?)",
(target_date, f"Five Good Things Today - {target_date}"),
).lastrowid
rows = _candidate_articles(conn, target_date, window_days)
# A calm daily brief shouldn't repeatedly hand the reader a locked door:
# push paywalled candidates below readable ones (stable, so composite order
# is preserved within each group) before selecting the five.
rows = sorted(rows, key=lambda r: is_paywalled(r["canonical_url"]))
selected = _select_diverse(rows, limit)
for index, row in enumerate(selected, start=1):
conn.execute(
"""
INSERT INTO daily_brief_items (brief_id, article_id, rank, selection_reason)
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
""",
(
brief_id,
row["id"],
index,
_selection_reason(row),
),
)
conn.commit()
return int(brief_id)
def show_brief(conn: sqlite3.Connection, brief_date: str | None = None, limit: int = 10) -> list[sqlite3.Row]:
target_date = brief_date or _latest_brief_date(conn)
if not target_date:
return []
return conn.execute(
"""
SELECT
b.brief_date,
bi.rank,
bi.selection_reason,
a.title,
a.description,
a.canonical_url,
a.published_at,
src.name AS source_name,
src.default_category,
s.constructive_score,
s.cortisol_score,
s.ragebait_score,
s.agency_score,
s.human_benefit_score,
s.reason_code,
s.reason_text,
s.model_name
FROM daily_briefs b
JOIN daily_brief_items bi ON bi.brief_id = b.id
JOIN articles a ON a.id = bi.article_id
JOIN sources src ON src.id = a.source_id
LEFT JOIN article_scores s ON s.article_id = a.id
WHERE b.brief_date = ?
ORDER BY bi.rank
LIMIT ?
""",
(target_date, limit),
).fetchall()
def _candidate_articles(
conn: sqlite3.Connection, target_date: str, window_days: int = 3
) -> list[sqlite3.Row]:
"""Brief candidates, sparse-day-proof.
Prefers articles dated on target_date, but widens to the preceding
`window_days` so the brief still fills on slow news days. Anything already
featured in a brief within the last 7 days (other than this same date, which
is being rebuilt) is excluded so backfilled stories cannot linger across
consecutive days.
"""
return conn.execute(
"""
SELECT
a.id,
a.title,
a.description,
a.canonical_url,
a.published_at,
a.discovered_at,
src.name AS source_name,
src.default_category,
src.trust_score,
s.constructive_score,
s.cortisol_score,
s.ragebait_score,
s.agency_score,
s.human_benefit_score,
s.novelty_score,
s.pr_risk_score,
s.reason_code,
s.reason_text,
s.model_name,
s.topic,
s.flavor,
CASE WHEN date(COALESCE(a.published_at, a.discovered_at)) = date(?)
THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS is_today
FROM articles a
JOIN sources src ON src.id = a.source_id
JOIN article_scores s ON s.article_id = a.id
WHERE s.accepted = 1
AND a.duplicate_of IS NULL
AND date(COALESCE(a.published_at, a.discovered_at)) <= date(?)
AND date(COALESCE(a.published_at, a.discovered_at)) > date(?, '-' || ? || ' days')
AND a.id NOT IN (
SELECT bi.article_id
FROM daily_brief_items bi
JOIN daily_briefs b ON b.id = bi.brief_id
WHERE b.brief_date <> ?
AND b.brief_date <= date(?)
AND b.brief_date > date(?, '-7 days')
)
ORDER BY
is_today DESC,
(s.constructive_score + s.agency_score + s.human_benefit_score + src.trust_score
- s.cortisol_score - s.ragebait_score - s.pr_risk_score) DESC,
COALESCE(a.published_at, a.discovered_at) DESC
LIMIT 50
""",
(target_date, target_date, target_date, window_days, target_date, target_date, target_date),
).fetchall()
def _select_diverse(rows: list[sqlite3.Row], limit: int, max_per_topic: int = 2) -> list[sqlite3.Row]:
"""Pick up to `limit` items from `rows` (already ranked best-first).
Contract:
1. Prefer higher-ranked items.
2. Source diversity: at most one item per source while other sources remain.
3. Topic balance: no more than `max_per_topic` of the same topic while other
topics still have candidates — so the five don't cluster (e.g. several
medical/science items) when community/culture/animals/environment exist.
4. Always fill to `limit` when enough candidates exist: the source and topic
caps are relaxed (in that order) only as needed to reach the count.
"""
selected: list[sqlite3.Row] = []
selected_ids: set = set()
seen_sources: set = set()
topic_count: dict = {}
def consider(enforce_source: bool, enforce_topic: bool) -> None:
for row in rows:
if len(selected) >= limit:
return
if row["id"] in selected_ids:
continue
if enforce_source and row["source_name"] in seen_sources:
continue
topic = row["topic"]
if enforce_topic and topic_count.get(topic, 0) >= max_per_topic:
continue
selected.append(row)
selected_ids.add(row["id"])
seen_sources.add(row["source_name"])
topic_count[topic] = topic_count.get(topic, 0) + 1
consider(enforce_source=True, enforce_topic=True) # distinct source, topic-balanced
consider(enforce_source=True, enforce_topic=False) # relax topic cap to fill
consider(enforce_source=False, enforce_topic=False) # relax source too, last resort
return selected
def _selection_reason(row: sqlite3.Row) -> str:
return (
f"{row['reason_code']}; constructive={row['constructive_score']}, "
f"agency={row['agency_score']}, human_benefit={row['human_benefit_score']}, "
f"cortisol={row['cortisol_score']}, source={row['source_name']}"
)
def _latest_brief_date(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> str | None:
row = conn.execute("SELECT brief_date FROM daily_briefs ORDER BY brief_date DESC LIMIT 1").fetchone()
return row["brief_date"] if row else None