The mediasphere is complex. RAQ cuts through the noise.
RAQ takes a topic—just a string of text, like Elizabeth Warren—and scans the media to understand the role of that topic within the greater media sphere.
First, clone the repository. Then, make sure that secrets.txt (in the project root directory) has valid API keys in it. The secrets.txt file has valid secret keys in it. In order, the keys are:
Wolfram Alpha Key
Word Extractor API Key (http://keywordextraction.net/keyword-extraction-api-document)
Microsoft Azure API Key 1
Microsoft Azure API Key 2
Simply import the Manager and pass it a string of the topic you'd like to understand.
You'll get data that looks like this in response:
[
{
"elements": {
"RelatedTopics": [
"testimony",
"air force",
"pacific command",
"briefing",
"trump",
"rene boucher",
"rand paul",
"bowling green",
],
"Popularity": {
"popularity": 48
},
"Sentiment": {
"sentiment": -0.9879,
"individual_sentiments": [
0.5297,
0.307,
-0.9528
]
},
"RelatedArticles": {
"top_articles": [
{
"headline": "Did Sessions mislead Congress about his interactions with Russia?",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-sessions-mislead-congress-about-his-interactions-with-russia/",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.7486CC918722A70321BBD371496F30A2&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Trump Stops in Hawaii En Route to Asia",
"url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hawaii-pearl-harbor-asia-trip/4099705.html",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.CCCA5F42648032139E3CE60CD622E660&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Sen. Rand Paul Allegedly Assaulted at His Kentucky Home, Suspect Arrested",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-suspect-arrested-n817591",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.C230C821D79BB6AF5BF11B8105C6CF0E&pid=News"
}
]
}
},
"connected": [],
"name": "Jeff Sessions"
},
{
"elements": {
"RelatedTopics": [
"conaway told cnn",
"sessions",
"testimony",
"met",
"air force",
"pacific command",
"briefing",
"trump",
"president",
"rene boucher",
"rand paul",
"minor injury",
"bowling green",
"paul"
],
"Popularity": {
"popularity": 48
},
"Sentiment": {
"sentiment": -0.9879,
"individual_sentiments": [
0.5297,
0.307,
-0.9528
]
},
"RelatedArticles": {
"top_articles": [
{
"headline": "Did Sessions mislead Congress about his interactions with Russia?",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-sessions-mislead-congress-about-his-interactions-with-russia/",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.7486CC918722A70321BBD371496F30A2&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Trump Stops in Hawaii En Route to Asia",
"url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hawaii-pearl-harbor-asia-trip/4099705.html",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.CCCA5F42648032139E3CE60CD622E660&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Sen. Rand Paul Allegedly Assaulted at His Kentucky Home, Suspect Arrested",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-suspect-arrested-n817591",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.C230C821D79BB6AF5BF11B8105C6CF0E&pid=News"
}
]
}
},
"connected": [
"conaway told cnn"
],
"name": "conaway told cnn"
},
{
"elements": {
"RelatedTopics": [
"conaway told cnn",
"sessions",
"testimony",
"met",
"air force",
"pacific command",
"briefing",
"trump",
"president",
"rene boucher",
"rand paul",
"minor injury",
"bowling green",
"paul"
],
"Popularity": {
"popularity": 48
},
"Sentiment": {
"sentiment": -0.9879,
"individual_sentiments": [
0.5297,
0.307,
-0.9528
]
},
"RelatedArticles": {
"top_articles": [
{
"headline": "Did Sessions mislead Congress about his interactions with Russia?",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-sessions-mislead-congress-about-his-interactions-with-russia/",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.7486CC918722A70321BBD371496F30A2&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Trump Stops in Hawaii En Route to Asia",
"url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hawaii-pearl-harbor-asia-trip/4099705.html",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.CCCA5F42648032139E3CE60CD622E660&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Sen. Rand Paul Allegedly Assaulted at His Kentucky Home, Suspect Arrested",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-suspect-arrested-n817591",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.C230C821D79BB6AF5BF11B8105C6CF0E&pid=News"
}
]
}
},
"connected": [
"conaway told cnn"
],
"name": "conaway told cnn"
},
{
"elements": {
"RelatedTopics": [
"conaway told cnn",
"sessions",
"testimony",
"met",
"air force",
"pacific command",
"briefing",
"trump",
"president",
"rene boucher",
"rand paul",
"minor injury",
"bowling green",
"paul"
],
"Popularity": {
"popularity": 48
},
"Sentiment": {
"sentiment": -0.9879,
"individual_sentiments": [
0.5297,
0.307,
-0.9528
]
},
"RelatedArticles": {
"top_articles": [
{
"headline": "Did Sessions mislead Congress about his interactions with Russia?",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-sessions-mislead-congress-about-his-interactions-with-russia/",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.7486CC918722A70321BBD371496F30A2&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Trump Stops in Hawaii En Route to Asia",
"url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hawaii-pearl-harbor-asia-trip/4099705.html",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.CCCA5F42648032139E3CE60CD622E660&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Sen. Rand Paul Allegedly Assaulted at His Kentucky Home, Suspect Arrested",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-suspect-arrested-n817591",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.C230C821D79BB6AF5BF11B8105C6CF0E&pid=News"
}
]
}
},
"connected": [
"conaway told cnn"
],
"name": "conaway told cnn"
},
{
"elements": {
"RelatedTopics": [
"conaway told cnn",
"sessions",
"testimony",
"met",
"air force",
"pacific command",
"briefing",
"trump",
"president",
"rene boucher",
"rand paul",
"minor injury",
"bowling green",
"paul"
],
"Popularity": {
"popularity": 48
},
"Sentiment": {
"sentiment": -0.9879,
"individual_sentiments": [
0.5297,
0.307,
-0.9528
]
},
"RelatedArticles": {
"top_articles": [
{
"headline": "Did Sessions mislead Congress about his interactions with Russia?",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-sessions-mislead-congress-about-his-interactions-with-russia/",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.7486CC918722A70321BBD371496F30A2&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Trump Stops in Hawaii En Route to Asia",
"url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-hawaii-pearl-harbor-asia-trip/4099705.html",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.CCCA5F42648032139E3CE60CD622E660&pid=News"
},
{
"headline": "Sen. Rand Paul Allegedly Assaulted at His Kentucky Home, Suspect Arrested",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sen-rand-paul-assaulted-his-kentucky-home-suspect-arrested-n817591",
"thumbnail": "https://www.bing.com/th?id=ON.C230C821D79BB6AF5BF11B8105C6CF0E&pid=News"
}
]
}
},
"connected": [
"conaway told cnn",
],
"name": "conaway told cnn"
}
]
We built Raq, a helpful Python API that lets you search, extract, and understand topics from the media.
Give Raq a topic—for example, "Jeff Sessions"—and it'll put together a collection of news stories on that topic. Then, Raq will figure HOW the media is covering that topic. Are the stories mostly positive? Negative? What are the other people, events, and organizations is the topic being connected to?
At its core, Raq is a machine-learning algorithm and a search algorithm packed into a convenient, fast, and easy-to-use API.
Using Raq is simple. When Raq is available on PyPI (a.k.a. "pip") in the next few hours, you'll be able to...
~$ pip install https://github.com/milesmcc/raq/archive/master.zip
Then, all you'll need to do is write some simple Python code:
import raq.manager network = raq.manager.think("Jeff Sessions") for topic in network: print topic.name print topic.sentiment print topic.related_articles
This will go through the topic you entered (in this case, "Jeff Sessions") and other topics associated with it, printing out sentiment towards that topic and related articles along the way.
Trying to make a news curation app? You could use Raq. Hoping to perform some deep learning analysis on topics in the news? Raq is your solution. It's so easy to use, you just couldn't not use it!