Catch Some Feelings

What it does

Catch Some Feelings scrapes replies to any Tweet and runs them through a sentiment analysis API to summarize emotional response. The data is then displayed in a graph for the user using a Flask webserver application.

How we built it

Without the Shitty Twitter API

Challenges we ran into

Shitty Twitter API
Did I mention Shitty Twitter API

The Twitter API has no native support for fetching the replies to a specific Tweet. We ended up hacking a solution by using Selenium to automatically scroll through a Tweet page to scrape replies.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting around the Shitty Twitter API

What we learned

Never trust the Shitty Twitter API

What's next for Catch Some Feelings

Pestering Twitter to add replies to the Twitter API

Built With

Submitted to

HackCMU 2017

Created by

I built the Flask back end and interacted with the MoodPatrol API which we used to analyze sentiment.

Samuel Damashek
SCS @ CMU 2021
I worked on the front end

Alex Schneidman
I experimented with the twitter API, validated input, and helped with the front end.

Winston Grenier
I bypassed the twitter api

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