📊 Reddit Sentiment Dashboard (ReputationMonitorApp)

A powerful Flask-based web application that scrapes Reddit posts for a given keyword, performs sentiment analysis using TextBlob, and visualizes public sentiment in an interactive dashboard.

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🔥 Features

• 🔍 Live Reddit Search: Searches Reddit in real-time using the PRAW API.
• 🧠 Sentiment Analysis: Categorizes posts as Positive, Neutral, or Negative.
• 📈 Data Visualization: Displays sentiment statistics in a clean dashboard.
• 🚀 Deploy-Ready: Easily deployable on platforms like Render.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Python 3.11
• Flask – Web framework
• PRAW – Python Reddit API Wrapper
• TextBlob – Sentiment analysis
• Pandas – Data handling
• Gunicorn – Production WSGI server

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Someshsw1109/ReputationMonitorApp.git
cd ReputationMonitorApp


### 2. Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended)

```bash
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

### 3. Install dependencies

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt

### 4. Create a .env file (for local development)

```REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
   REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
   REDDIT_USER_AGENT=ReputationMonitorApp by /u/your_reddit_username

### 5. Run the app

```bash
python app.py

```Visit: http://127.0.0.1:5000/ in your browser.


👨‍💻 Author
[Somesh Raj]
GitHub: @Someshsw1109
Reddit: /u/Lonely-Discount-6781

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Note - Use Python version - 3.11(Strongly recommended)