I created my GitHub account on or about May 26. I quickly added 7 repositories, and then I started working on other projects. I haven’t been receiving notifications, nor have I been checking my account… until today.

At some point, someone starred my Google Web Scraper. It makes sense that this code might earn my first star, because it was really hard to find helpful information when I was searching for it, plus this code has quite a few features beyond merely scraping hyperlinks. It also scrapes the linked-to pages, performs sentiment analysis using 2 libraries (TextBlob and VADER), summarizes text using 4 methods (LexRank, Luhn, LSA, and LSA with Stopwords), ranks stopwords-scrubbed keywords, writes the results to a file, and even graphs the results in a pie chart.

In short, this was an exciting discovery. I hope whoever starred my repository found my code useful, because that’s obviously what it’s there for!