README.md

NewsMood Analyzer

NewsMood is your go-to platform for insightful news sentiment analysis. Whether you're curious about the latest trending topic or want to delve into the emotional landscape of a specific event, we've got you covered. Simply enter a keyword, and our sophisticated sentiment analysis engine will sift through thousands of news articles, bringing you not just the information, but the emotional pulse of the story.

Project Highlights

• Django Web App

  • Developed a web application using Django.
  • Implemented views, templates, and models for data handling.

• NewsAPI Integration

  • Used NewsAPI to fetch real-time news articles based on specific queries.
  • Processed JSON responses to extract relevant news data.

• Web Scraping

  • Implemented web scraping techniques to gather supplementary news content.
  • Used BeautifulSoup for parsing and extraction.

• Sentiment Analysis with RoBERTa

  • Integrated a pretrained RoBERTa model for sentiment analysis.
  • Applied natural language processing techniques to determine sentiment (positive, negative, neutral).

Technologies Used

• Backend: Python, Django
• API: NewsAPI
• Web Scraping Tools: BeautifulSoup, Scrapy
• Machine Learning/NLP: RoBERTa, Hugging Face Transformers

Project Workflow

1. Data Collection

   • Utilizes NewsAPI to fetch recent news articles.
   • Scrapes additional content from relevant websites for enriched dataset.

2. Data Processing

   • Parses and cleans data retrieved from NewsAPI and web scraping.
   • Normalizes text, removes HTML tags, and prepares data for sentiment analysis.

3. Sentiment Analysis

   • Applies RoBERTa model for sentiment analysis of news articles.
   • Classifies sentiment into categories such as positive, negative, or neutral.

4. Presentation

   • Displays news articles along with sentiment analysis results.
   • Implemented using Django web framework for a user-friendly interface.

Installation

Python and Django need to be installed

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Go to sentiment_analysis folder

  python manage.py runserver

NOTE - you need to create .env file and environmental variable 'NEWS_API_KEY' in the .env file. Then go to the browser and enter the url http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Login and Signup

Users can register through register page. Then, user can login through login page.

You can access the django admin page at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin and login with username 'admin' and password 'admin@123'.

Also a new admin user can be created using

  python manage.py createsuperuser

Screenshots

Acknowledgements

• NewsAPI for providing access to news articles.
• OpenAI for the RoBERTa model and Transformers library.