OpenBB/website/content/sdk/reference/stocks/ba/sentiment.md

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sentiment	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.	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]

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]

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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