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Use IBM Watson AlchemyAPI to display the sentiment of us stock market news
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sentiment.rb
require 'httparty'
key = @apikey
target = 'http://feeds.reuters.com/news/usmarkets?format=html'
url = "http://gateway-a.watsonplatform.net/calls/url/URLGetTextSentiment?apikey=#{key}&url=#{target}&outputMode=json"
response = HTTParty.post(url, headers: {'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
puts response.body
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{ "status": "OK", "usage": "By accessing AlchemyAPI or using information generated by AlchemyAPI, you are agreeing to be bound by the AlchemyAPI Terms of Use: http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/terms.html", "url": "http://feeds.reuters.com/news/usmarkets?format=html", "totalTransactions": "1", "language": "english", "docSentiment": { "mixed": "1", "score": "-0.198827", "type": "negative" } }

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