---
title: sentiment
description: This page provides documentation on extracting sentiment from a stock
  ticker symbol, which includes the parameters for the number of tweets per hour,
  number of days to extract tweets for, an optional comparison to the corresponding
  change in stock price, and an optional export format. Plots sentiments can also
  be visualized using the provided python codes.
keywords:
- sentiment analysis
- stock ticker symbol
- tweets per hour
- extract tweets
- stock price
- dataframe
- python code
- plot sentiments
- export format
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Get sentiments from symbol.

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/common/behavioural_analysis/twitter_model.py#L125)]

```python
openbb.stocks.ba.sentiment(symbol: str, n_tweets: int = 15, n_days_past: int = 2)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Stock ticker symbol to get sentiment for | None | False |
| n_tweets | int | Number of tweets to get per hour | 15 | True |
| n_days_past | int | Number of days to extract tweets for | 2 | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Dataframe of sentiment |
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Plots sentiments from symbol

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/common/behavioural_analysis/twitter_view.py#L79)]

```python
openbb.stocks.ba.sentiment_chart(symbol: str, n_tweets: int = 15, n_days_past: int = 2, compare: bool = False, export: str = "", external_axes: Optional[List[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes]] = None)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Stock ticker symbol to get sentiment for | None | False |
| n_tweets | int | Number of tweets to get per hour | 15 | True |
| n_days_past | int | Number of days to extract tweets for | 2 | True |
| compare | bool | Show corresponding change in stock price | False | True |
| export | str | Format to export tweet dataframe |  | True |
| external_axes | Optional[List[plt.Axes]] | External axes (1 axis is expected in the list), by default None | None | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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