⚡ StraitTracker

Real-time Strait of Hormuz geopolitical intelligence — live on Cloudflare's edge

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What Is This

StraitTracker monitors the Strait of Hormuz — the world's most critical oil chokepoint — aggregating live intelligence from news sources and presenting it in a clean, real-time dashboard.

The Strait handles ~20% of global oil transit. When it's tense, the world economy feels it. This tool gives you a live pulse.

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Features

• 📡 Live Intel Feed — NewsAPI aggregation refreshed on-demand
• 🗺️ Interactive Map — Leaflet.js showing the strait geography and flash points
• 📊 Status Dashboard — threat level, recent incidents, tanker traffic
• ⚡ Edge Deployed — Cloudflare Workers, global CDN, zero cold starts
• 🔄 On-Demand Refresh — news cache updates automatically on each load

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Architecture

User Request
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Cloudflare Worker (strait-tracker)
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     ├── KV Cache (news, TTL: 15min)
     │     └── NewsAPI (on cache miss)
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     └── Static UI (Leaflet map + dashboard)

Stack: Cloudflare Workers · Cloudflare KV · Leaflet.js · NewsAPI · JavaScript

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Self-Hosting

git clone https://github.com/indicaindependent/straittracker
cd straittracker

cp wrangler.toml.example wrangler.toml
# Add: CF account ID, KV namespace ID, NEWS_API_KEY secret

wrangler secret put NEWS_API_KEY
wrangler deploy

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License

MIT — use it, fork it, build on it.

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_{Part of the WarHeatMap intelligence stack | Built by Indica Independent}