Quick creation of sites driven by Twitter search results, using Node.js and Redis.
Usage
Clone the repo.
npm install
to install dependencies.Edit settings.js.
- If you want to use the Streaming APIs, you'll need to register an app at https://dev.twitter.com/ and use its consumer key and secret. Streaming is associated with the account you authenticate with - you can generate an access token for your own Twitter acount for local development.
- If Twitter credentials are not supplied, the site poller will fall back to
calling the Search API every
pollInterval
seconds. - Express requires that you put something in
sessionSecret
to hash its sessions with.
Start
redis-server
.To add yourself as an admin, fire up
redis-cli
and add your Twitter screen name to theadmins
set, e.g.:$ redis-cli redis 127.0.0.1:6379> sadd admins twitinsin (integer) 1
After signing in with your Twitter account, you'll have access to the admin section.
node server.js
to start polling for Tweets and serve up a site which uses the Tweets.Hack.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2012, Jonathan Buchanan
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.
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