twitter-sentiment-analysis

Twitter Sentiment Analysis using Python

Usage

Installation:

Note: You may need to run these commands as superuser.

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

Also, we need to install some NLTK corpora using following command:

$ python -m textblob.download_corpora

(Corpora is nothing but a large and structured set of texts.)

Authentication:

In order to fetch tweets through Twitter API, one needs to register an App through their twitter account.
Follow these steps for the same:

• Open this link and click the button: 'Create New App'
• Fill the application details. You can leave the callback url field empty.
• Once the app is created, you will be redirected to the app page.
• Open the 'Keys and Access Tokens' tab.
• Copy 'Consumer Key', 'Consumer Secret', 'Access token' and 'Access Token Secret'.

To run:

$ python twitter_analysis.py

License

MIT