Twitter Sentiment Endpoint

This 21 endpoint is based on the article 'Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Python' and can currently be viewed on the 21 marketplace. It obtains a given number of tweets via the define API credentials and runs a polarity analysis. You can test 21 buy "phillr/twitter-sentiment/?sst=bitcoin&cct=21" where sstis the search string and cctthe maximum number of tweets to search. The output returns the relative frequency of tweet polarity:

Total Number of tweets 210:
Positive tweets percentage: 33.333333333333336 %
Neutral tweets percentage: 61.904761904761905 %
Negative tweets percentage: 4.761904761904762 %

Installation:

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/PhillRob/twitter-sentiment-21.git
cd twitter-sentiment-21

Install dependencies

Tweepy

Tweepy is the python client for the official Twitter API. Install it using following pip command: pip install tweepy

TextBlob

Textblob is the python library for processing textual data. Install it using following pip command: pip install textblob

Plugin your twitter OAuth credentials

Authentication: To fetch twitter data through the API, a couple of steps are required.

• Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ to set up a App based on your twitter account
• Click ‘Create New App’
• Fill the details. The callback url field is not required.
• Go to the ‘Keys and Access Tokens’ tab.
• Copy ‘Consumer Key’, ‘Consumer Secret’, ‘Access token’ and ‘Access Token Secret’ and place it in the header of sentiment-server.py