https://github.com/ftrain/may142016

This app was created to support a collaborative project by Miranda July and Paul Ford as part of the Rhizome 7on7 project.
https://github.com/ftrain/may142016

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This app was created to support a collaborative project by Miranda July and Paul Ford as part of the Rhizome 7on7 project.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ftrain/may142016
• Owner: ftrain
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-05-23T02:31:10.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-05-23T18:38:22.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T16:53:21.376Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 41 KB
• Stars: 20
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# "May 14, 2016" Twitter search tool

This was created to support [a collaborative project by Miranda July and Paul Ford with support from Starlee Kine as part of the Rhizome 7on7 project](https://vimeo.com/167171454).

![Here is a screenshot.](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ftrain/may142016/master/doc/screenshot.jpg)

This is a Flask app and some utilities that load data into SQLite. Standard caveats about speed of development and general incompetence apply/but has the merit of working okay.

It makes it possible to search and browse historical tweets across a group of individuals. For example: Load in all the people in your Slack room, search their tweets for "dream," and recite their dreams back to them.

## Up and running:

- python 3

- put all the twitter handles in `data/handles.csv`

- `pip install -r requirements.txt`

- go get a twitter API key

- copy `config_template.py` to `config.py` and modify per that API key

- Run these things

  - `python -m util.make_db` # make the database

  - `python -m util.load_users` # load the users from `data/handles.csv`

  - `python -m util.import_tweets` # import the tweets from those handles

Tweet importing will take a long time, many hours or days depending on your list of people, their prolixity, etc.

Run the app:

- `python app.py`

## Notes

- Works fine under `gunicorn`.

- If you start to mess with itwhile the tweets are loading into SQLite it can skip tweets because SQLite wants none of that.