afinn-96

AFINN 96 (list of English words rated for valence) in JSON

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import afinn96 from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/afinn-96';
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afinn-96

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Easy access to AFINN-96.

AFINN 96 is the lightweight (1468 words/phrases) and older version of AFINN 165 (3382 words/phrases).

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install afinn-96

Use

import {afinn96} from 'afinn-96'

afinn96.positive // => 2
afinn96['fed up'] // => -3

API

This package exports the following identifiers: afinn96. There is no default export.

afinn96

afinn-96 returns entries to valence ratings (Object.<number>).

Note! Be careful when accessing unknown properties on the afinn-96 object, words such as constructor or toString might occur. It’s recommended to use a hasOwnProperty check beforehand.

Musings

Note the AFINN entries are:

  • All lower case
  • Can contain spaces (cases: can't stand, cashing in, cool stuff, does not work, dont like, fed up, green wash, green washing, messing up, no fun, not good, not working, right direction, screwed up, some kind)
  • Can contain apostrophes (only case: can't stand)
  • Can contain dashes (cases: cover-up, made-up, short-sighted, short-sightedness, son-of-a-bitch)

Related

  • afinn-111 — AFINN list from 2011, containing 2477 entries
  • afinn-165 — AFINN list from 2015, containing 3382 entries
  • emoji-emotion — Like AFINN, but for emoji
  • polarity — Detect the polarity of text, based on afinn-165 and emoji-emotion

License

MIT © Titus Wormer