Internet Mood Ring

Single screen. No login. No prompts. Just a pulse.

Run (Windows / PowerShell)

1. Activate your venv:

• ./vint/Scripts/Activate.ps1

2. Install deps:

• python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Start server:

• python -m uvicorn app.main:app --reload

Open:

• http://127.0.0.1:8000

What you get

• GET / → static page (full-screen mood)
• GET /api/mood → current snapshot (no numbers like sentiment/intensity exposed)
• Auto-refreshes server-side every ~10 minutes
• Saves a daily history entry at UTC day rollover into data/history.json

Optional: spaCy urgency upgrade

The urgency system can optionally use spaCy for cleaner tokens/lemmas.

• Install: pip install -r requirements-nlp.txt
• Download model: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
• (Optional) set model: IMR_SPACY_MODEL=en_core_web_sm