Twitter-sentiment-starter

This project lets you quickstart a Twitter account to respond to all incoming Tweets to your account with the Sentiment of that Tweet.

Twitter Developer account

As of July 2018 you now have to have a Twitter Developer account. This process is simple.

go to https://apps.twitter.com/

On here you have to "Create an App"

Once this is done you can select "Keys and Tokens" to get your:

• API Key
• Secret API Key
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

at the root of this project create a file called auth.json and populate is as follows:

consumer_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
consumer_secret="YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY"
access_token="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
access_token_secret="YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Sentiment Analysis

Run a Python terminal, then run the following:

 >>> import nltk
>>> nltk.download('vader_lexicon')

Hitting an endpoint

for hitting an endpoint dependent on sentiment

create a file called endpoints.py

bad="google.com/bad"
good="google.com/good"