WallStreetBets Sentiment

This tool is used to parse all of the comments on WSB in the past X time. Counts the tickers and their occurrence count, then presents if WSB is bullish or bearish or neutral on said ticker. (Using a custom version of VaderSentiment)

TODO List

• Improve VADER Sentiment
• Add Changelog
• Create Web App
• Create setup.py
  • Add init SQL scripts
• Handle "MoreComments"
• Add Award Count
• Add comments to database

Thoughts

• What submissions should I go throgh?
  • New/Hot/Top/Controversial/Guilded

Issues

• Potential for multiple tickers within comments.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• Docker-compose
• Python 3.8.3

cd wsb-scraper
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running app

# Starts MySQL DB and Node server 
docker-compose up --build
# Run Scraper in other terminal window
cd wsb-scraper
python main.py

Built With

• Future : VaderSentiment - Used to determine if comment of ticker is Bullish or Bearish. (Tweaked with personal rules)
• MySQL

Contributing

Fork this repo and merge into master.

Will update contributing rules once versioning is decided

Versioning

TBD

Authors

• Jetemple - Sole work

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Acknowledgments

• Thank you WSB for letting me pick your brains.