Getting started

Basic usage

When you add spacytextblob into your spaCy pipeline a new custom attribute is created named ._.blob. The ._.blob attribute is a textblob.TextBlob object from the textblob library. With it you can access all of the same methods and attributes in spaCy as you would be able to do in TextBlob.

Using spaCy and spacytextblob:

import spacy
from spacytextblob.spacytextblob import SpacyTextBlob

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
text = "I had a really horrible day. It was the worst day ever! But every now and then I have a really good day that makes me happy."
nlp.add_pipe("spacytextblob")
doc = nlp(text)

print(doc._.blob.polarity)
# -0.125

print(doc._.blob.subjectivity)
# 0.9

print(doc._.blob.sentiment_assessments.assessments)
# [(['really', 'horrible'], -1.0, 1.0, None), (['worst', '!'], -1.0, 1.0, None), (['really', 'good'], 0.7, 0.6000000000000001, None), (['happy'], 0.8, 1.0, None)]

print(doc._.blob.ngrams())
# [WordList(['I', 'had', 'a']), WordList(['had', 'a', 'really']), WordList(['a', 'really', 'horrible']), WordList(['really', 'horrible', 'day']), WordList(['horrible', 'day', 'It']), WordList(['day', 'It', 'was']), WordList(['It', 'was', 'the']), WordList(['was', 'the', 'worst']), WordList(['the', 'worst', 'day']), WordList(['worst', 'day', 'ever']), WordList(['day', 'ever', 'But']), WordList(['ever', 'But', 'every']), WordList(['But', 'every', 'now']), WordList(['every', 'now', 'and']), WordList(['now', 'and', 'then']), WordList(['and', 'then', 'I']), WordList(['then', 'I', 'have']), WordList(['I', 'have', 'a']), WordList(['have', 'a', 'really']), WordList(['a', 'really', 'good']), WordList(['really', 'good', 'day']), WordList(['good', 'day', 'that']), WordList(['day', 'that', 'makes']), WordList(['that', 'makes', 'me']), WordList(['makes', 'me', 'happy'])]

Comparison to TextBlob

Using TextBlob:

from textblob import TextBlob

text = "I had a really horrible day. It was the worst day ever! But every now and then I have a really good day that makes me happy."
blob = TextBlob(text)

print(blob.sentiment_assessments.polarity)
# -0.125

print(blob.sentiment_assessments.subjectivity)
# 0.9

print(blob.sentiment_assessments.assessments)
# [(['really', 'horrible'], -1.0, 1.0, None), (['worst', '!'], -1.0, 1.0, None), (['really', 'good'], 0.7, 0.6000000000000001, None), (['happy'], 0.8, 1.0, None)]

print(blob.ngrams())
# [WordList(['I', 'had', 'a']), WordList(['had', 'a', 'really']), WordList(['a', 'really', 'horrible']), WordList(['really', 'horrible', 'day']), WordList(['horrible', 'day', 'It']), WordList(['day', 'It', 'was']), WordList(['It', 'was', 'the']), WordList(['was', 'the', 'worst']), WordList(['the', 'worst', 'day']), WordList(['worst', 'day', 'ever']), WordList(['day', 'ever', 'But']), WordList(['ever', 'But', 'every']), WordList(['But', 'every', 'now']), WordList(['every', 'now', 'and']), WordList(['now', 'and', 'then']), WordList(['and', 'then', 'I']), WordList(['then', 'I', 'have']), WordList(['I', 'have', 'a']), WordList(['have', 'a', 'really']), WordList(['a', 'really', 'good']), WordList(['really', 'good', 'day']), WordList(['good', 'day', 'that']), WordList(['day', 'that', 'makes']), WordList(['that', 'makes', 'me']), WordList(['makes', 'me', 'happy'])]