Repustate
The Qlik Repustate connector uses the Repustate API to fetch sentiment analytics for your textual data, such as tweets, messages, or comments. The Repustate connector also lets you classify blocks of text and label parts of speech.
Supported offerings
- Qlik Sense Business
- Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS
Ways to access your data
To access the Repustate API, you need to authenticate the connector with a Repustate API key.
Creating a data source connection
Loading data from tables
After you authenticate the connector with your account credentials, use the tables to fetch your data. Some tables are preconfigured to access a specific set of data while others let you create custom queries. The table below outlines some of the use cases for some of the tables that are available.
Table | Description |
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Usage | Use this table to fetch the status of the Repustate API. |
Sentiment | Use this table to fetch a single sentiment score for the full text. |
SentimentByTopic | Use this table to fetch the sentiment score for text sorted by named topics. |
SentimentChunked | Use this table to fetch the sentiment score for text grouped into chunks. |
Categorise | Use this table to fetch the sentiment score for text sorted into industry-specific categories. |
PartsOfSpeech | Use this table to fetch the parts of speech for each word in a block of text. |
DetectLanguage | Use this table to fetch the language of a block of text. |
Themes | Use this table to fetch the themes of a block of text. |
Entities | Use this table to fetch the entity classification for terms within a block of text. |
To select and load data from a table, enter the required table parameters and click Preview data. Required parameters are marked with an asterisk (*). The table fields are displayed under the Data preview tab. You can select fields individually by selecting the box beside each field name. Select Insert script after you have made your selection.
Creating a connection and selecting data
Analyzing text
The most effective way to use the Repustate connector is to have a script pass rows of data to the Repustate API to generate a new table with sentiment scores for each row of data.
Using a For/Next loop
Example:
Working with the Repustate API quota limits
The Qlik Web Connectors call the Repustate API to provide sentiment analysis on your data and load it into your Qlik Sense app. While reloading you Repustate-based app, you might receive an error message that the connector has reached the Repustate API rate limit and that all subsequent API calls will fail until the connector falls back under the throttling limit. If you receive this error message, then you have exceeded the API rate limit.
You receive an error message that you have reached the API rate limit
Reference - Repustate documentation
You can refer to the Repustate API documentation to learn more about requirements and restrictions imposed by the Repustate API.
Troubleshooting
You receive an error message that you have reached the API rate limit
Possible cause
You have exceeded the API limits that are imposed on the Qlik Web Connectors by the Repustate API.
Proposed action
To reduce the impact of reaching the API rate limit, develop your app with the following in mind:
- Extract only the data you need.
- Reload one Repustate-based application at a time.
- Ensure that loops in your script that make API calls will not result in infinite loops.