Changelog¶

All notable changes to Sentimatrix are documented here.

[0.2.0] - 2025-01-29¶

Added¶

LLM Providers (19 total)¶

• Cloud Providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Cohere, Groq
• Inference Providers: Together AI, Fireworks, OpenRouter, Cerebras, DeepSeek
• Local Providers: Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, ExLlamaV2
• Enterprise: Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock

Platform Scrapers (8 platforms)¶

• Amazon product reviews
• Steam game reviews
• YouTube comments
• Reddit posts and comments
• IMDB movie reviews
• Yelp business reviews
• Trustpilot company reviews
• Google Reviews

Commercial Scraping APIs (7 services)¶

• ScraperAPI integration
• Apify integration
• Bright Data integration
• Oxylabs integration
• Zyte integration
• ScrapingBee integration
• ScrapingAnt integration

Core Features¶

• Async-first architecture with asyncio
• Context manager pattern (async with)
• Batch processing for efficiency
• Comprehensive error handling
• Rate limiting with multiple strategies
• Retry logic with exponential backoff
• Caching (memory, Redis, SQLite)
• Structured logging with structlog

Sentiment Analysis¶

• Quick sentiment (3-class)
• Fine-grained sentiment (5-class)
• Aspect-based sentiment analysis
• Comparative sentiment analysis
• Temporal sentiment tracking
• Domain-specific analysis

Emotion Detection¶

• Ekman's 6 basic emotions
• GoEmotions 28-class taxonomy
• Plutchik's wheel of emotions
• Multi-label detection
• Emotion intensity analysis

LLM Features¶

• Review summarization
• Insight generation (pros/cons)
• Streaming responses
• Function calling
• JSON mode output

Changed¶

• Complete rewrite from V1
• Pydantic v2 for configuration
• Modern Python 3.10+ features

Fixed¶

• ScraperConnectionError missing provider argument
• Abstract method implementation in BaseCommercialClient

[0.1.0] - Initial Release¶

Added¶

• Basic sentiment analysis
• OpenAI integration
• Simple web scraping

Migration Guide¶

From V1 to V2¶

Configuration¶

# V1 (deprecated)
from sentimatrix import SentimentAnalyzer
analyzer = SentimentAnalyzer(api_key="...")

# V2
from sentimatrix import Sentimatrix
from sentimatrix.config import SentimatrixConfig, LLMConfig

config = SentimatrixConfig(
    llm=LLMConfig(provider="openai", api_key="...")
)

async with Sentimatrix(config) as sm:
    result = await sm.analyze("Hello")

Async Pattern¶

# V1 (sync)
result = analyzer.analyze("Hello")

# V2 (async)
async with Sentimatrix() as sm:
    result = await sm.analyze("Hello")

Web Scraping¶

# V1
reviews = analyzer.scrape_amazon("url")

# V2
reviews = await sm.scrape_reviews(
    url="url",
    platform="amazon",
    use_browser=True
)

Versioning¶

Sentimatrix follows Semantic Versioning:

• MAJOR: Breaking API changes
• MINOR: New features, backward compatible
• PATCH: Bug fixes, backward compatible

Releases¶