tweetreader

Tweetreader is a program that:

• Loads all polls from a datastore and collect all options from the options array in each document
• Opens and maintains a connection to Twitter's streaming APIs looking for any mention of the options
• Figures out which option is mentioned and push that option through to NSQ for each tweet that matches the filter
• If connection to Twitter is dropped, after a short delay, reconnect and continue
• Periodically re-query MongoDB for the latest polls and refresh the connection to Twitter to make sure we check for the right options
• Gracefully stop itself when the user terminates the program by hitting ctrl + c

Authorisation with Twitter

To use the streaming API, authentication credentials from twitter is required.

• Head over to https://apps.twitter.com and create a new app with a unique name

• Visit the API Keys tab and locate the Your access token section and create a new access token.

• Refresh the page and notice the two sets of keys and secrets:

  • an API key and a secret
  • an access token and the corresponding secret

• Set these values as environment variables

  • TWITTER_KEY
  • TWITTER_SECRET
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET

• setup.sh is a file that contains configuration settings such as environment variables