Scraping Social Media with Gemini for sentiment analysis

Scraping Social Media with Gemini for Sentiment Analysis Hackathon project: using Gemini + a user's browser to analyze real sentiment hidden inside social media comment sections. Inspiration If you want to understand how people actually feel about a product, brand, or topic, the best data source is often comment sections . The problem: scraping social platforms is getting harder every year. Platforms now deploy: expensive APIs and paywalls (e.g. Reddit's API changes) aggressive bot detection rate limits and scraping prevention Running scrapers from servers or headless browsers usually gets blocked almost immediately. So we asked: What if the scraper wasn't a bot at all — but a real user's browser? Modern browser automation combined with Gemini's computer-use capabilities makes that possible. A real browser session comes with some powerful advantages: ✅ already authenticated to social platforms ✅ trusted by anti-bot systems ✅ capable of normal browsing behavior In other words: the ultim