Genesis Sentiment Analyzer

Genesis is a sentiment analysis tool that analyses submissions from handpicked subreddits using natural language processing.

Progress | Models and API | Development

Progress

Overview

Alpha Release Overview: Youtube

Future Release/Features underway

• Redo ENTIRE frontend with dedicated framework (react or vue)
• Refactor backend to create endpoints using flask
• New features
  • Implement user accounts
    • Custom Subreddit feeds
    • Saved submissions
    • Portfolio
  • Implement overall market sentiment with timeframes
  • Implement sector sentiment
  • Implement in-depth submission analysis page
• Fix search performance and bugs
• More integration with finnhub (or other possible alternatives)

Models and API

• https://huggingface.co/mrm8488/distilroberta-finetuned-financial-news-sentiment-analysis
• https://huggingface.co/ProsusAI/finbert
• https://finnhub.io/docs/api
• https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/OAuth2-Quick-Start-Example#first-steps

Development

We are in alpha testing. The alpha release will contain bugs and is not the complete form of this webapp.

Start

  python -m venv venv
  source venv/bin/activate
  pip install -r requirements.txt OR pip install -r requirements_full.txt
  flask --debug run

API keys

Get your finnhub API key from finnhub
Get your reddit API key by following these steps:
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/OAuth2-Quick-Start-Example#first-steps

You need:

• client_id
• client_secret
• user_agent

the client_id and user agent go in info.py

  reddit = praw.Reddit(
    client_id=" ", // <--------------------------------------HERE
    client_secret=os.getenv('REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET'),
    user_agent=" " // <-------------------------------------------------HERE,
  )

the API keys go in a .env file which you need to create

  FINNHUB_API_KEY= // <-------------------------------------------------HERE
  REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET= // <-------------------------------------------------HERE