Sodium Intake - A Reddit Sentiment Analyzer
Scrapes subreddits for hot posts daily, and performs sentiment analysis
on the set of submissions to gauge an overall sentiment for posts in the
selected subreddits.
Setup and Installation
- Uses NLTK, NumPY and PRAW
- You can install all of the required dependencies by running pip on the
requirements.txt file
pip install -r requirements.txt- Note: These are the only requirements to use this application. NLTK itself has other libraries that is uses,
and will give warnings when those libraries are not installed.
- To fix this for
twython, just install it. pip install twython
- Create an
auths.py file. A template is provided.
- You must register a Reddit application here in order to
obtain your client ID and secret for using Reddit's API.
- Create a
subreddits.txt file containing the subs that will be used for sentiment analysis.
Subreddits should be separated by newlines. A template is provided.
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