RSS-Sentiment

Filter RSS Feeds With Sentiment Analysis

Deployed App: https://rss-sentiment.herokuapp.com

Server Repository: https://github.com/AaronGoldsmith1/rss-sentiment-server

Client Repository: https://github.com/AaronGoldsmith1/rss-sentiment-client

This project applies the AFINN-165 wordlist to blocks of input text, and produces a numerical score based on the 'positive' or 'negative' quality of the text content.

For example:

Analysis of the following string:

I love cats, but I am allergic to them.

Produces the following results:

{
    score: 0.1111111111111111,
    calculation: [ { allergic: -2 }, { love: 3 } ],
    tokens: 9,
    positive: ['love'],
    negative: ['allergic']
}

Because the string has 9 tokens, the resulting comparative score looks like: (3 + -2) / 9 = 0.111111111

This score has a range of -1 to 1, so the RSS feed items will be classified based on the following distribution of comparative sentiment scores:

• Very Negative (-1 to -0.25)
• Slightly Negative (-0.25 to 0)
• Neutral (0)
• Slightly Positive (0 to 0.25)
• Very Positive (0.25 to 1)

The user will be able to filter the RSS feeds accoding to these Levels:

• 0 - Items with score -1 to 1 (All)
• 1 - Items with scores -0.25 to 1
• 2 - Items with scores 0 to 1
• 3 - Items with scores .25 - 1

Technologies Used

• MongoDB
• Express.js
• React.js
• Node.js
• Mongoose ODM
• Semantic-UI-React
• CanvasJS Charts
• Supertest
• Mocha
• Chai
• React Testing Libray
• Jest
• rss-parser
• sentiment

Screenshots

Tests

ERD

Wireframes

Challenges / Considerations

• CanvasJS Bar Chart should be able to link to the specific feed for which the data is being displayed if a user clicks
• I'd like to add some form of user auth like JWTs or sessions
• Using a React state management solution like Redux or Recoil would help modularize front-end code and improve performance
• Further normalizing RSS feed data to accomodate feeds that include images and other data fields
• I'd like to include more front-end tests using React Testing Library
• I plan to refactor the React code to utilize hooks with functional components, and lifecycle methods to avoid page refreshes

User Stories

• AAU, I want to be able to sign up and log in
• AAU, I want to add an RSS Feed to a list of feeds
• AAU, I want to see relevant information about an RSS feed after I add it to my list (image, title, link, etc.)
• AAU, I want to be able to view the content of an RSS feed, including images
• AAU, I want to be able to filter the content of my stored RSS feeds by sentiment, and have the filter setting persist to a database
• AAU, I would like to be notified with a message if there are no RSS feed items that meet the filter criterea
• AAU, I would like to see a feed item description by hovering over the item title
• AAU, I want to see a visualization of the distribution of sentiment scores for each feed in my list in a stacked bar chart
• (stretch) AAU, I would like to select an RSS feed from a predefined communal list of feeds and add it to my list
• (stretch) AAU, I would like to have the RSS feeds automatically fetch and display new content when it becomes available, without having to refresh the page