# Sentiment Analysis API, Text Emotion & Tone Detector (`george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api`) Actor

Analyze text sentiment in real time. Returns positive, negative, or neutral with confidence score. Detects emotion words, handles negation. No external API costs. Built for brand monitoring, review analysis, and social media pipelines.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api.md
- **Developed by:** [George Kioko](https://apify.com/george.the.developer) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 text analyzeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Sentiment Analysis API

Analyze text sentiment instantly. Returns positive, negative, or neutral with a confidence score. No external AI costs. Runs entirely on a built in word lexicon.

### What you get

- Sentiment label: positive, negative, or neutral
- Score from -1 (very negative) to +1 (very positive)
- Confidence score (0 to 1)
- List of positive and negative words found
- Negation detection ("not good" correctly scores as negative)

### Who uses this

- Brand monitoring teams analyzing thousands of mentions
- Review analysis pipelines processing customer feedback
- Social media monitoring checking sentiment trends
- Content teams auditing tone before publishing
- Research projects analyzing public discourse

### API (Standby Mode)

Instant response, no cold start.

#### Analyze text (GET)

```
GET /analyze?text=I love this product it is amazing
```

#### Analyze text (POST, for longer text)

```
POST /analyze
Content-Type: application/json

{"text": "The customer service was terrible and nobody helped me resolve the issue"}
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "text": "I love this product it is amazing",
  "sentiment": "positive",
  "score": 0.7,
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "details": {
    "wordCount": 8,
    "matchedWords": 2,
    "positiveWords": ["love", "amazing"],
    "negativeWords": [],
    "totalScore": 7,
    "averageScore": 3.5
  },
  "analyzedAt": "2026-04-12T15:00:00Z"
}
```

#### Health check

```
GET /health
```

### How it works

Uses a lexicon of 200+ sentiment scored words (based on the AFINN word list, public domain). Each word has a score from -5 (strongly negative) to +5 (strongly positive). The analyzer tokenizes your text, looks up each word, handles negation ("not good" flips the score), and returns an aggregate result.

No external API calls. No LLM costs. Pure algorithmic analysis. This means every request costs fractions of a cent to run.

### Pricing

$0.003 per text analyzed. No subscriptions.

1,000 analyses = $3.00. Run it on your entire review database for less than a cup of coffee.

### Pairs well with

- [Reddit Brand Monitor](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/reddit-scraper-pro) for analyzing Reddit comment sentiment
- [Google News Alert](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/google-news-monitor) for news sentiment tracking
- [Telegram Channel Monitor](https://apify.com/george.the.developer/telegram-channel-scraper) for community sentiment analysis

### Built by George Kioko

50 actors on Apify, 869+ users. More at https://apify.com/george.the.developer

# Actor input Schema

## `text` (type: `string`):

Text to analyze for sentiment

## Actor input object example

```json
{}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=george.the.developer/sentiment-analysis-api",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/aTELLtr28h5k0QQz1/builds/OwlTH1a9KBMjaVJ95/openapi.json