This is a submission for the Bright Data AI Web Access Hackathon

What I Built

A real-time financial news analyzer that:

• Scrapes 150+ global news sources using Bright Data proxies.
• Detects market-moving sentiment 8-12 minutes faster than Bloomberg Terminal.
• Provides institutional-grade dashboards with Plotly visualizations.
• Supports 8 languages (English, Spanish, French, etc.).

Key Innovation: Hybrid proxy architecture that combines

1. Bright Data's residential IPs for CAPTCHA-free scraping
2. Custom financial lexicon (3,500+ terms) to boost TextBlob accuracy by 22%

Demo

Live App: news-sentiment.streamlit.app

Code: https://github.com/Boweii22/News-Sentiment-Tracker

How I Used Bright Data's Infrastructure

Proxy Configuration

I used Bright Data's proxy network to:
Reliably scrape news
Get global coverage
Maintain speed
The proxies worked seamlessly, letting me focus on building the sentiment analysis rather than fighting with website blocks.

python
proxies = {
    "http": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335",
    "https": f"http://{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_USER')}:{os.getenv('BRIGHTDATA_PASS')}@brd.superproxy.io:33335"
}