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HackerNews Sentiment Analysis

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Use VaderSentiment to analyze the sentiment of a post on HackerNews.

Documentation: https://namuan.github.io/hn-sentiment

Source Code: https://github.com/namuan/hn-sentiment

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/hn-sentiment/

Installation

pip install hn-sentiment

Usage

To run it against a single HackerNews post, copy the post id from the URL and run the following command:

hn-sentiment -s 34846476 -o target/34846476-sentiment.md

Acknowledgements

Development

  • Clone this repository
  • Requirements:
  • Python 3.7+

  • Poetry

  • Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies

poetry install
  • Activate the virtual environment
poetry shell

Validating build

make build

Release process

A release is automatically published when a new version is bumped using make bump. See .github/workflows/build.yml for more details. Once the release is published, .github/workflows/publish.yml will automatically publish it to PyPI.

License

MIT License