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+from . import emotion_detector
diff --git a/emotion_detector.py b/emotion_detector.py
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+import requests
+
+def emotion_detector(text_to_analyze):
+    url = 'https://sn-watson-emotion.labs.skills.network/v1/watson.runtime.nlp.v1/NlpService/EmotionPredict'
+    inp = {'raw_document': {'text': text_to_analyze}}
+    header = {"grpc-metadata-mm-model-id": "emotion_aggregated-workflow_lang_en_stock"}
+    response = requests.post(url, json = inp, headers=header)
+    res = response.json()
+    for x in res.values():
+        for y in x[0].values():
+            maxim = max(y.values())
+            l = list(y.keys())
+            y["dominant_emotion"] = l[list(y.values()).index(maxim)]
+            return y
+    
+    
+            
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