HackerNews Sentiment Analysis

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

• VaderSentiment

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