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feat: add GNews sentiment signal for politics/tech/events markets
bot/data/news.py (new):
- NewsClient with in-memory cache (TTL=4h) to stay within 100 req/day limit
- _build_query(): strips dates, punctuation and stopwords from market question
- _score_headlines(): keyword-based pos/neg vote per article, averaged ∈ [-1, +1]
- Degrades to 0.0 on missing key, 403 quota, or network error

bot/strategy/bayesian.py:
- BayesianStrategy(news=NewsClient) — optional, backwards compatible
- Signal 4: GNews sentiment applied as direct log-odds shift (weight=1.5)
  so a ±1.0 sentiment score moves a 50% prior to 82%/18%
- +0.10 confidence boost when news signal is present
- NEWS_LOGODDS_WEIGHT constant documented at module level

bot/main.py:
- Instantiate NewsClient, pass to BayesianStrategy, close in finally block

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-14 08:24:11 +00:00

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"""
News sentiment client for GNews API.
Free tier: 100 requests/day — we stay well within this by caching each
unique query for CACHE_TTL seconds (4 hours). With ~9 political markets
refreshed every 4 h that is 9 × 6 = 54 requests/day.
Score returned: -1.0 (very negative headlines) → +1.0 (very positive).
Returns 0.0 on any error or missing API key so the caller degrades gracefully.
"""
import logging
import os
import re
import time
from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
import httpx
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
GNEWS_API = "https://gnews.io/api/v4/search"
CACHE_TTL = 4 * 3600 # seconds — fits 100 req/day free tier
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Keyword lists for headline sentiment
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
_POSITIVE = {
"win", "wins", "won", "victory", "success", "successful",
"agree", "agreed", "agreement", "approve", "approved", "approval",
"confirm", "confirmed", "sign", "signed", "deal", "advance",
"progress", "support", "peace", "likely", "probable", "imminent",
"historic", "breakthrough", "resolve", "resolved", "resume", "resumed",
}
_NEGATIVE = {
"fail", "fails", "failed", "failure", "reject", "rejected", "rejection",
"block", "blocked", "refuse", "refused", "deny", "denied",
"lose", "lost", "collapse", "collapsed", "crisis", "war", "attack",
"veto", "oppose", "opposed", "unlikely", "impossible", "never",
"stall", "stalled", "withdraw", "withdrew", "sanction", "sanctions",
"threat", "threatens", "dead", "halt", "halted", "cancel", "cancelled",
"breakdown", "escalate", "escalation",
}
# Words stripped when building the search query (too generic to help relevance)
_QUERY_STOPWORDS = {
"will", "the", "a", "an", "by", "in", "on", "at", "to", "of",
"and", "or", "is", "be", "are", "was", "were", "have", "has",
"had", "do", "does", "did", "for", "from", "with", "not", "no",
"this", "that", "it", "its", "their", "they", "he", "she", "we",
"most", "more", "least", "less", "any", "all", "both", "each",
"win", "lose", "get", "make", "take",
}
# Regex patterns for dates / noise
_DATE_RE = re.compile(
r"\b(january|february|march|april|may|june|july|august|"
r"september|october|november|december)\s+\d{1,2}\b"
r"|\b20\d{2}\b"
r"|\bQ[1-4]\b",
flags=re.IGNORECASE,
)
_PUNCT_RE = re.compile(r"[?!\"'.,;:()\[\]{}]")
class NewsClient:
"""
Async GNews client with in-memory result cache.
Usage::
client = NewsClient()
score = await client.get_sentiment("Will Trump visit China")
# score ∈ [-1.0, +1.0] — positive means bullish for the YES outcome
await client.close()
"""
def __init__(self) -> None:
self._api_key = os.getenv("GNEWS_API_KEY", "")
self._client = httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=10)
# {cache_key: (fetched_at_monotonic, score)}
self._cache: dict[str, tuple[float, float]] = {}
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public API
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
async def get_sentiment(self, question: str, days: int = 7) -> float:
"""
Return a sentiment score ∈ [-1.0, +1.0] for the market question.
- Positive: most recent headlines suggest the YES outcome is more likely
- Negative: headlines suggest the YES outcome is less likely
- 0.0: neutral, no data, or API unavailable
"""
if not self._api_key:
log.debug("GNEWS_API_KEY not set — skipping news signal")
return 0.0
query = self._build_query(question)
if len(query) < 3:
return 0.0
cache_key = query.lower()
now = time.monotonic()
cached = self._cache.get(cache_key)
if cached is not None:
fetched_at, score = cached
if now - fetched_at < CACHE_TTL:
log.debug("News cache hit %r%.3f", query, score)
return score
try:
resp = await self._client.get(
GNEWS_API,
params={
"q": query,
"lang": "en",
"max": 10,
"from": _iso_days_ago(days),
"token": self._api_key,
},
)
except Exception as exc:
log.warning("GNews network error for %r: %s", query, exc)
return 0.0
if resp.status_code == 403:
log.warning("GNews: 403 — invalid key or daily quota exhausted")
# Cache a neutral result for 1 h to avoid hammering the endpoint
self._cache[cache_key] = (now, 0.0)
return 0.0
try:
resp.raise_for_status()
data = resp.json()
except Exception as exc:
log.warning("GNews bad response for %r: %s", query, exc)
return 0.0
articles = data.get("articles", [])
score = self._score_headlines(articles)
self._cache[cache_key] = (now, score)
log.info(
"GNews %r%d articles, sentiment=%.3f",
query, len(articles), score,
)
return score
async def close(self) -> None:
await self._client.aclose()
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# Internal helpers
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
@staticmethod
def _build_query(question: str) -> str:
"""Extract meaningful search terms from a market question."""
q = _DATE_RE.sub(" ", question)
q = _PUNCT_RE.sub(" ", q)
tokens = [
w for w in q.split()
if w.lower() not in _QUERY_STOPWORDS and len(w) > 2
]
return " ".join(tokens[:8]) # GNews handles ~8 keyword queries well
@staticmethod
def _score_headlines(articles: list[dict]) -> float:
"""
Score each article title + description independently, then average.
Each article vote: (pos_hits - neg_hits) / (pos_hits + neg_hits) ∈ [-1, 1].
Articles with no sentiment keywords contribute 0 (not excluded).
"""
if not articles:
return 0.0
votes: list[float] = []
for art in articles:
text = (
f"{art.get('title', '')} {art.get('description', '')}"
).lower()
words = set(re.findall(r"\b\w+\b", text))
pos = len(words & _POSITIVE)
neg = len(words & _NEGATIVE)
total = pos + neg
votes.append((pos - neg) / total if total > 0 else 0.0)
return max(-1.0, min(1.0, sum(votes) / len(votes)))
def _iso_days_ago(days: int) -> str:
dt = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=days)
return dt.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")