https://github.com/ernesto-jimenez/node-twitter-stream-echo

This service connects to Twitter Streaming API and listens in UNIX socket /tmp/tweets.sock where it echoes all the content received from twitter.
https://github.com/ernesto-jimenez/node-twitter-stream-echo

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This service connects to Twitter Streaming API and listens in UNIX socket /tmp/tweets.sock where it echoes all the content received from twitter.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ernesto-jimenez/node-twitter-stream-echo
• Owner: ernesto-jimenez
• Created: 2011-02-05T14:49:53.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-02-05T15:22:55.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T16:26:29.827Z (7 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Twitter Stream Echo

I wanted to code several scripts that would consume the Twitter Streaming API to get different stats with live data.

The [Rate Limiting for the streaming API][rate_limits] only allows one connection per IP address and blacklists IPs doing excessive connections:

> Each account may create only one standing connection to the Streaming API.

> Subsequent connections from the same account may cause previously established

> connections to be disconnected. Excessive connection attempts, regardless of

> success, will result in an automatic ban of the client's IP address.

> Continually failing connections will result in your IP address being

> blacklisted from all Twitter access.

This small TCP service establishes one single connection to the Twitter Streaming API and echoes all the tweets to any client connected to the socket at `/tmp/tweets.sock`.

It allows you to consume the streaming API from several scripts in your computer with one single connection to Twitter and being able to restart the scripts without reconnecting to Twitter.

## Usage

1. Download the service: `git clone https://github.com/ernesto-jimenez/node-twitter-stream-echo.git`

2. Edit echo.js and type your twitter username and password.

3. Run the service: `node echo.js`

4. Connect to `/tmp/tweets.js` and have fun :)

You can test the service using telnet: `telnet /tmp/tweets.sock`

## MIT License

Copyright (C) 2011 by Ernesto Jiménez 

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

THE SOFTWARE.

[rate_limits]: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_concepts#access-rate-limiting]