obseiβ’Mar 27, 2025
obsei
Note: Obsei is still in alpha stage hence carefully use it in Production. Also, as it is constantly undergoing development hence master branch may contain many breaking changes. Please use released version.
Obsei (pronounced "Ob see" | /Ιb-'sΔ/) is an open-source, low-code, AI powered automation tool. Obsei consists of -
Observer: Collect unstructured data from various sources like tweets from Twitter, Subreddit comments on Reddit, page post's comments from Facebook, App Stores reviews, Google reviews, Amazon reviews, News, Website, etc.
Analyzer: Analyze unstructured data collected with various AI tasks like classification, sentiment analysis, translation, PII, etc.
Informer: Send analyzed data to various destinations like ticketing platforms, data storage, dataframe, etc so that the user can take further actions and perform analysis on the data.
All the Observers can store their state in databases (Sqlite, Postgres, MySQL, etc.), making Obsei suitable for scheduled jobs or serverless applications.
!Obsei diagram
Future direction -
Text, Image, Audio, Documents and Video oriented workflows
Collect data from every possible private and public channels
Add every possible workflow to an AI downstream application to automate manual cognitive workflows
Use cases
Obsei use cases are following, but not limited to -
Social listening: Listening about social media posts, comments, customer feedback, etc.
Alerting/Notification: To get auto-alerts for events such as customer complaints, qualified sales leads, etc.
Automatic customer issue creation based on customer complaints on Social Media, Email, etc.
Automatic assignment of proper tags to tickets based content of customer complaint for example login issue, sign up issue, delivery issue, etc.
Extraction of deeper insight from feedbacks on various platforms
Market research
Creation of dataset for various AI tasks
Many more based on creativity π‘
Installation
Prerequisite
Install the following (if not present already) -
Install Python 3.7+
Install PIP
Install Obsei
You can install Obsei either via PIP or Conda based on your preference.
To install latest released version -
Install from master branch (if you want to try the latest features) -
Note: all option will install all the dependencies which might not be needed for your workflow, alternatively
following options are available to install minimal dependencies as per need -
pip install obsei[source]: To install dependencies related to all observers
pip install obsei[sink]: To install dependencies related to all informers
pip install obsei[analyzer]: To install dependencies related to all analyzers, it will install pytorch as well
pip install obsei[twitter-api]: To install dependencies related to Twitter observer
pip install obsei[google-play-scraper]: To install dependencies related to Play Store review scrapper observer
pip install obsei[google-play-api]: To install dependencies related to Google official play store review API based observer
pip install obsei[app-store-scraper]: To install dependencies related to Apple App Store review scrapper observer
pip install obsei[reddit-scraper]: To install dependencies related to Reddit post and comment scrapper observer
pip install obsei[reddit-api]: To install dependencies related to Reddit official api based observer
pip install obsei[pandas]: To install dependencies related to TSV/CSV/Pandas based observer and informer
pip install obsei[google-news-scraper]: To install dependencies related to Google news scrapper observer
pip install obsei[facebook-api]: To install dependencies related to Facebook official page post and comments api based observer
pip install obsei[atlassian-api]: To install dependencies related to Jira official api based informer
pip install obsei[elasticsearch]: To install dependencies related to elasticsearch informer
pip install obsei[slack-api]:To install dependencies related to Slack official api based informer
You can also mix multiple dependencies together in single installation command. For example to install dependencies
Twitter observer, all analyzer, and Slack informer use following command -
How to use
Expand the following steps and create a workflow -
Step 1: Configure Source/Observer
Twitter
Youtube Scrapper
Facebook
Email
Google Maps Reviews Scrapper
AppStore Reviews Scrapper
Play Store Reviews Scrapper
Reddit
Reddit Scrapper
Note: Reddit heavily rate limit scrappers, hence use it to fetch small data during long period
Google News
Web Crawler
Pandas DataFrame
Step 2: Configure Analyzer
Note: To run transformers in an offline mode, check transformers offline mode.
Some analyzer support GPU and to utilize pass device parameter.
List of possible values of device parameter (default value auto):
auto: GPU (cuda:0) will be used if available otherwise CPU will be used
cpu: CPU will be used
cuda:{id} - GPU will be used with provided CUDA device id
Text Classification
Text classification: Classify text into user provided categories.
Sentiment Analyzer
Sentiment Analyzer: Detect the sentiment of the text. Text classification can also perform sentiment analysis but if you don't want to use heavy-duty NLP model then use less resource hungry dictionary based Vader Sentiment detector.
NER Analyzer
NER (Named-Entity Recognition) Analyzer: Extract information and classify named entities mentioned in text into pre-defined categories such as person names, organizations, locations, medical codes, time expressions, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc
Translator
PII Anonymizer
Dummy Analyzer
Dummy Analyzer: Does nothing. Its simply used for transforming the input (TextPayload) to output (TextPayload) and adding the user supplied dummy data.
Step 3: Configure Sink/Informer
Slack
Zendesk
Jira
ElasticSearch
Http
Pandas DataFrame
Logger
This is useful for testing and dry running the pipeline.
Step 4: Join and create workflow
source will fetch data from the selected source, then feed it to the analyzer for processing, whose output we feed into a sink to get notified at that sink.
Step 5: Execute workflow
Copy the code snippets from Steps 1 to 4 into a python file, for example example.py and execute the following command -
Demo
We have a minimal streamlit based UI that you can use to test Obsei.
!Screenshot
Watch UI demo video
Check demo at
(Note: Sometimes the Streamlit demo might not work due to rate limiting, use the docker image (locally) in such cases.)
To test locally, just run
To run Obsei workflow easily using GitHub Actions (no sign ups and cloud hosting required), refer to this repo.
Companies/Projects using Obsei
Here are some companies/projects (alphabetical order) using Obsei. To add your company/project to the list, please raise a PR or contact us via email.
Oraika: Contextually understand customer feedback
1Page: Giving a better context in meetings and calls
Spacepulse: The operating system for spaces
Superblog: A blazing fast alternative to WordPress and Medium
Zolve: Creating a financial world beyond borders
Utilize: No-code app builder for businesses with a deskless workforce
Articles
Sr. No.
Title
Author
1
AI based Comparative Customer Feedback Analysis Using Obsei
Reena Bapna
2
LinkedIn App - User Feedback Analysis
Himanshu Sharma
Tutorials
Sr. No.
Workflow
Colab
Binder
1
Observe app reviews from Google play store, Analyze them by performing text classification and then Inform them on console via logger
PlayStore Reviews β Classification β Logger
2
Observe app reviews from Google play store, PreProcess text via various text cleaning functions, Analyze them by performing text classification, Inform them to Pandas DataFrame and store resultant CSV to Google Drive
PlayStore Reviews β PreProcessing β Classification β Pandas DataFrame β CSV in Google Drive
3
Observe app reviews from Apple app store, PreProcess text via various text cleaning function, Analyze them by performing text classification, Inform them to Pandas DataFrame and store resultant CSV to Google Drive
AppStore Reviews β PreProcessing β Classification β Pandas DataFrame β CSV in Google Drive
4
Observe news article from Google news, PreProcess text via various text cleaning function, Analyze them via performing text classification while splitting text in small chunks and later computing final inference using given formula
Google News β Text Cleaner β Text Splitter β Classification β Inference Aggregator
π‘Tips: Handle large text classification via Obsei
Documentation
For detailed installation instructions, usages and examples, refer to our documentation.
Support and Release Matrix
Linux
Mac
Windows
Remark
Tests
β
β
β
Low Coverage as difficult to test 3rd party libs
PIP
β
β
β
Fully Supported
Conda
β
β
β
Not Supported
Discussion forum
Discussion about Obsei can be done at community forum
Changelogs
Refer releases for changelogs
Security Issue
For any security issue please contact us via email
Stargazers over time
Maintainers
This project is being maintained by Oraika Technologies. Lalit Pagaria and Girish Patel are maintainers of this project.
License
Copyright holder: Oraika Technologies
Overall Apache 2.0 and you can read License file.
Multiple other secondary permissive or weak copyleft licenses (LGPL, MIT, BSD etc.) for third-party components refer Attribution.
To make project more commercial friendly, we void third party components which have strong copyleft licenses (GPL, AGPL etc.) into the project.
Attribution
This could not have been possible without these open source softwares.
Contribution
First off, thank you for even considering contributing to this package, every contribution big or small is greatly appreciated.
Please refer our Contribution Guideline and Code of Conduct.
Thanks so much to all our contributors