Sentiment Analysis using Twitter API

💡 This project is running on python version 3.10.4

Table of Contents

• Installing Dependencies
• Running the scripts

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Installing Dependencies

• You need to install all the dependencies by running the code pip install -r requirements.txt in the terminal.

Running the scripts

• Firstly, you need to create a .env file in the root directory, and have your API keys in the format ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXXXXX etc.
• Secondly, run the save_data.py in data directory. The script will fetch data from twitter, and save it in real-time in a data.csv file that will be created in the data directory. The data is simply the sentiment score of every English tweet containing the words crypto OR cryptocurrency OR cryptocurrencies.
• Finally, run the main.py script, and the live data will be plotted in real time; a new data point is created after every 30 minutes (a session)