I Built a Tariff Impact Tracker That Shows What the Internet Actually Thinks

Tariffs are dominating the news cycle right now. But the headlines only tell you what journalists think. What does the actual internet think? I built a quick tracker that pulls real-time social data on tariffs -- volume, sentiment, top posts, which platforms are driving the conversation -- using LunarCrush's API. It processes 50M+ social posts per hour across X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and 10K+ news sources. Here's what I found and how to build it yourself. GitHub repo: JoeVezzani/tariff-tracker What we're building A simple Node.js script that: Tracks social volume and sentiment for any keyword (tariffs, trade war, specific companies) Compares how different platforms feel about the same topic Finds the most viral posts driving the conversation Runs on a cron to alert you when sentiment shifts Setup (2 minutes) mkdir tariff-tracker && cd tariff-tracker npm init -y Grab an API key at lunarcrush.com/developers. Pull the data const API_KEY = process.env.LUNARCRUSH_API_K