Example usage of TweetSentiments.com API

tweetsentiment API examples.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'

# Sentiments on tweets
# http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?topic=<topic to analyze>
url = "http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/analyze.json?q=i%20am%20happy"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
data = resp.body
result = JSON.parse(data)
result["sentiment"]["name"]
result["sentiment"]["value"]

# Sentiments on topics
# http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?topic=<topic to analyze>
url = "http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?topic=verizon"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
data = resp.body
result = JSON.parse(data)
result["sentiment_index"]          # sentiment index for the topic
result["positive"]                 # number of positive tweets
result["negative"]                 # number of negative tweets
result["neutral"]                  # number of neutral tweets
result["results"]                  # tweets with sentiments
result["results"][0]["text"]       # tweet text of the first analyzed tweet
result["results"][0]["sentiment"]  # tweet sentiment of the first analyzed tweet

url = "http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?topic=comcast"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
data = resp.body
result = JSON.parse(data)
result["sentiment_index"]
result["positive"]
result["negative"]
result["neutral"]

# Sentiments on users
# http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?user=<user to analyze>
url = "http://data.tweetsentiments.com:8080/api/search.json?user=dhh"
resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
data = resp.body
result = JSON.parse(data)
result["sentiment_index"]
result["positive"]
result["negative"]
result["neutral"]