Mood of the News via Vonage Messages API and IBM Watson

This is a demo app of the Vonage Messages API integrated with IBM Watson Natural Language Analyzer API and News API running on Ruby on Rails. The application responds to the sender of a WhatsApp message with the sentiment and tone of the daily headlines requested by topic.

Requirements

• A Vonage account
• A IBM Watson account
• A News API account
• Ruby on Rails
• ngrok

Installation

• Clone this repository
• Provision a Vonage WhatsApp number (More info can be found here.)
• Create a Vonage Messages API application from the Vonage API dashboard
• Follow the IBM Watson instructions to create a new IBM Watson Natural Language application on their dashboard
• Sign up for a News API account
• Link your WhatsApp number to your application in the Vonage API dashboard
• Move ./env.sample to ./env
• Define your Vonage, News API and IBM Watson credentials in the /.env file
• Start up the Rails server and ngrok

Usage

Send a WhatsApp message with the news topic you want analyzed to your WhatsApp provisioned number. For example, send the topic "weather" to the number. You will receive a response with the overall sentiment and tone for the topic you messaged.

License

This application is under the MIT License