AswathyMohan89 / amfromBot

amfromBot

The PlotBot is a twitter bot that does sentimental analysis on the search #amfromBot @<search_user>.

The Bot searches every 5 minutes, for a tweet with #amfromBot. If a new tweet found, it will do sentimental Analysis on the tweets from that user.

instructions

Download Python and conda from the links given below

Python

mac : Goto https://www.python.org/downloads/ and download latest version

windows : Goto https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ and download latest version

conda

mac : Goto https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/macos.html follow directions

windows : Goto https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/windows.html follow directions

Remember to add to PATH variable during installiation

To verify goto (Terminal/GitBash) and type conda -V or conda list.

Create conda environment

conda create -n PythonData python=3.6 anaconda

source activate PythonData

python --version

Fork the repo and clone to remote

Api

Create api keys from https://apps.twitter.com - Twitter

Do the following in git(windows)/terminal(mac)

source activate PythonData

pip install tweepy

vader- sentiment analysis

source activate PythonData

pip install vaderSentiment==2.5

if it doesn't work try creating a new conda env:

conda create -n newPythonData python=3.6 anaconda

source activate PythonData

pip install vaderSentiment==2.5 jupyter notebook

open PlotBot.ipynb in jupyter notebook and enter the twitter credentials. You can change botname by specifying in #

The counter can be set infinitely by while(True)

I have retrived only past 100 tweets, can increase the value.