jct94/kinesis-twitter-watcher

You can use this script to monitor certain tags on Twitter and send the data to Amazon Kinesis

Kinesis Twitter Watcher

Kinesis Twitter Watcher is a script to get a Twitter streaming and send the data to Amazon Kinesis. You can watch any tags you want, get and send tweets about them to Amazon Kinesis.

I used this as part of a personal Data Lake project. You can see the big picture below.

However, you can use this script however you want.

Installation

You need to have Python 3.6+ in your development environment to run this script.

In order to install all dependencies, you can simply run this command.

pip install -r requirements.txt

For production environments...

I strongly recommend using a virtual environment.

Config file

Before run this script you need to create a Kinesis Stream and a developer account on Twitter. You will fill config.ini file with your own config info provided by Twitter and AWS.

Running

To run this script you need to send the tags you want to watch as argument, using comma as delimiter.

python watch.py bolsonaro,bonoro,bozonaro,bolsomito,mito,mitonaro,salnorabo,coiso,bonossauro