Reddit Trend Spotter 🔥

Real-time analysis of trending Reddit topics using machine learning.

Features ✨

• 🕵️ Live Reddit post analysis from /r/all
• 🤖 Automated topic modeling with LDA
• 📊 Interactive topic visualization
• 🔒 Secure API credential management

Tech Stack 🛠️

// Python + Flask (Backend)
// PRAW (Reddit API)
// Scikit-learn (ML Pipeline)
// Bootstrap 5 (Frontend) [to-be]
// Joblib (Model Persistence)

Setup 🚀

1. Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/WebWizard2965/dev-heat-hackathon.git
cd dev-heat-hackathon

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure .env:

REDDIT_CLIENT_ID="YOUR_CLIENT_ID"
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET="YOUR_SECRET"
REDDIT_USER_AGENT="web:TrendSpotter:v1.0 (by /u/YOUR_USERNAME)"

4. Run:

python app.py

Usage 📈

1. Visit http://localhost:5000
2. Enter post count (1-50)
3. See trends + topics

License 📜

MIT License - See LICENSE

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Note: Replace placeholder credentials in .env.example and rename to .env