News-sentiment-analyzer

This project will scrape yahoo finance articles on a particular stock of your choosing and perform sentiment analysis using NLP on the headlines. It will show you a graph of the sentiment compound score over time.

• A compound score = 0 indicates the news headline being neutral.
• A compound score > 0 indicates a positive headline.
• A compound score < 0 indicates a negative headline.

Libraries used:

• nltk
• beautifulsoup
• selenium
• matplotlib

To-do

• Scrape headlines of yahoo news
• Add sentiment analysis of headlines using a pre-trained model
• Refine sentiment analysis by adding custom financial lexicon
• Add functionality to scrape all yahoo finance articles on a particular stock and then visualise their sentiment compound_score over time.

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