Package

Use this package to download and analyze twitter sentiments.

Usage

Before using the package you need to set user parameters obtained by creating a twitter
app first. The package will need to read the user data from your environment variables stored in the following dict format

user_params = {
    "consumerKey": os.environ.get("consumerKey"),
    "consumerSecret": os.environ.get("consumerSecret"),
    "accessToken": os.environ.get("accessToken"),
    "accessTokenSecret": os.environ.get("accessTokenSecret"),
}

Installation

Install the package as follows:
pip3 install twitcent

importing the module

In your script simply import the package as follows:

from twitcent.twitcent import sentiments_dict

Calling the analyzer

The sentiment analysis main function is 'sentiments_dict' which is called under the script as follows:
from twitcent.twitcent import sentiments_dict

Get the sentiments score by calling

Do this to get scored sentiments sentiments_dict('#keyword', '180').
Where #keyword is the main keyword hashtag to search, and '180' is a string referring to the number of tweets to pull.
Be careful not to hit the rate limits allowed by twitter. For this reffer to the
twitter API documentation