CodeDay Pittsburgh May 2019 - 1st place
The chrome extension and web app allow the user to quickly gain insights on the overall sentiment of subreddit posts through colors. By using IBM's Tone Analyzer API, the provided text is processed for emotion and intensity thereof. Reddit's API was used to extract posts for sentiment analysis. We utilized React, Express.js, and Node.js to implement our core functionality.
To run the web application locally, make sure you have Node installed (https://nodejs.org/en/).
After cloning the respository, run:
$ cd web-app
$ npm i
$ yarn start
Navigate to localhost:3000 or the specified port.
To use the chrome extension, go to "chrome://extensions/" in your address bar.
Turn on developer mode on the top right corner and click on "Load unpacked" in the top left corner. Load the reddit-sentiment-analysis folder from where you have cloned the file. The "Reddit Sentiment Analysis" chrome extension should appear and can be toggled on.
Navigate to anywhere on https://www.reddit.com/ or https://old.reddit.com/.
Enjoy!