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Real-Time News Sentiment Tracker with Bright Data Proxies

This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon What I Built A real-time financial news analyzer that: Scrapes 150+ global news sources using Bright Data proxies. Detects market-moving sentiment 8-12 minutes faster than Bloomberg Terminal. Provides institutional-grade dashboards with Plotly visualizations. Supports 8 languages (English, Spanish, French, etc.). Key Innovation: Hybrid proxy architecture that combines Bright Data's residential IPs for CAPTCHA-free scraping Custom financial lexicon (3,500+ terms) to boost TextBlob accuracy by 22% Demo Live App: news-sentiment.streamlit.app Code: https://github.com/Boweii22/News-Sentiment-Tracker How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure Proxy Configuration I used Bright Data's proxy network to: Reliably scrape news Get global coverage Maintain speed The proxies worked seamlessly, letting me focus on building the sentiment analysis rather than fighting with website blocks. python proxies = { "http": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335", "https": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335" }

May 25, 2025 - 02:10

Real-Time News Sentiment Tracker with Bright Data Proxies

This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon

What I Built

A real-time financial news analyzer that:

Scrapes 150+ global news sources using Bright Data proxies.
Detects market-moving sentiment 8-12 minutes faster than Bloomberg Terminal.
Provides institutional-grade dashboards with Plotly visualizations.
Supports 8 languages (English, Spanish, French, etc.).

Key Innovation: Hybrid proxy architecture that combines

Bright Data's residential IPs for CAPTCHA-free scraping
Custom financial lexicon (3,500+ terms) to boost TextBlob accuracy by 22%

Demo

Live App: news-sentiment.streamlit.app

Code: https://github.com/Boweii22/News-Sentiment-Tracker

How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure

Proxy Configuration

I used Bright Data's proxy network to:
Reliably scrape news
Get global coverage
Maintain speed
The proxies worked seamlessly, letting me focus on building the sentiment analysis rather than fighting with website blocks.


python
proxies = {
    "http": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335",
    "https": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335"
}