afinn-165-financialmarketnews v3.0.0

afinn-165-financialmarketnews

AFINN 165 - Financial Market News.

Contents

• What is this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • afinn165
• Musings
• Types
• Compatibility
• License

What is this?

This package exposes a map of words rated for valence. (“goodness” vs “badness”), specifically the AFINN-165 list, but with additions and modifications to existing words to be tuned for parsing financial news.

Install

This package is esm only. In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with:

npm install afinn-165-financialmarketnews

Use

import {afinn165FinancialMarketNews} from 'afinn-165-financialmarketnews'

afinn165FinancialMarketNews.raises //=> 1
afinn165FinancialMarketNews.bankruptcy //=> -3
afinn165FinancialMarketNews.crashing //=> -2

API

This package exports the identifier afinn165FinancialMarketNews. There is no default export.

afinn165

Map of words to valence (Record<string, number>).

👉 Note: be careful when accessing unknown properties on the afinn165 object, words such as “constructor” or “toString” might occur. It’s recommended to use a hasOwnProperty check beforehand.

Musings

This package adds 170+ words, and modifies a few others compared to the repository this is forked from. These modifications and additions aim to help better parse sentiment from financial news.

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+.

License

MIT License.