https://github.com/jcla1/tweet_collector

Simple program to help you collect tweets into a DB via the twitter streaming API
https://github.com/jcla1/tweet_collector

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Simple program to help you collect tweets into a DB via the twitter streaming API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jcla1/tweet_collector
• Owner: jcla1
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-03-31T14:47:49.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-04-05T07:18:41.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-21T03:14:38.469Z (7 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 160 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Tweet collector

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Use it to collect tweets from the [Twitter streaming API](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/post/statuses/filter).

## Usage

First you need API credentials for the streaming API. You can get those by creating a new Twitter App on the Application management screen. Put these credentials in a JSON file called `config.json`.

Then edit keepalive.sh and put in your DB credentials (tested with MySQL) in the env variable `DB_CREDENTIALS`.

Example: username:password@/dbname

If you're not on OSX remove the call to "caffeinate".

The script will run the collector, that saves tweets and users to the DB, and in case of an error, it will restart the process. Forever.