Open-source linguistic ethnography tool for framing public opinion in mediatized groups.
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Installing
Python 3.7.1 or higher is required.
To install the library, you can just run the following command:
$ pip install -U qualichat
To install a development version, follow these steps:
$ git clone https://github.com/qualichat/qualichat
$ cd qualichat
# Linux/MacOS
$ python3 -m pip install -U .
# Windows
$ py -3 -m pip install -U .
Quickstart
To use this library, you need a plain chat text file, following this format:
[dd/mm/yy hh:mm:ss]
:
For example, see this following sample chat file named sample-chat.txt
:
[01/01/21 07:52:45] Joel: Hello!
[01/01/21 07:52:47] Mary: Hi!
[01/01/21 07:52:49] Joel: How are you guys?
[01/01/21 07:52:52] Mary: We are fine! 😊
How about you?
[01/01/21 07:52:55] Oliva: Everything's great!
[01/01/21 07:52:59] Joel: Cool! I am also fine!
[01/01/21 07:53:03] John left
In your code, you will just load the chat using qualichat.load_chat()
.
chat = qualichat.load_chat('sample-chat.txt')
Links
- Website: http://qualichat.com
- Documentation: https://qualichat.readthedocs.io
- Source code: https://github.com/qualichat/qualichat