Saved keyword searches

[ginatrapani]

Add the ability to save searches for certain kind of content that maybe isn't in an owner's stream, like a Twitter hashtag, or random keyword.

@username is done in this commit:
http://github.com/ginatrapani/thinkup/commit/1e3efaa0ef257ada87fc445a9afc5d31daea878c
Update: @username searches have been removed since the interface was too confusing--wasn't clear when to click Authorize button and when to just add a user name. Have to rethink that one.

Also the ability to save keyword searches in ThinkUp itself -- evaluate Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/), Solr, MongoDB

[ankit]

This feature would be really useful!

I am working on a research project in grad school where I am trying to collect and archive tweets related to Blacksburg (mostly tracking related hashtags like #blacksburg)

Surprisingly, I couldn't find an open solution that does this well. There is yourTwapperKeeper (http://your.twapperkeeper.com/) but it is flaky.

ThinkUp would be the ideal solution for this. I might give this is a try, instead of writing my own solution.

[ginatrapani]

Ankit--much of this is already written, but commented out.

Uncomment out these lines and start playing:

https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp/blob/master/webapp/plugins/twitter/view/twitter.account.index.tpl#L53

The comment/copy says that's for adding a user without authorization,
but what it really does is just run a keyword search.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ankit Ahuja
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This feature would be really useful!

I am working on a research project in grad school where I am trying to collect and archive tweets related to Blacksburg (mostly tracking related hashtags like #blacksburg)

Surprisingly, I couldn't find an open solution that does this. There is yourTwapperKeeper (http://your.twapperkeeper.com/) but it is flaky.

ThinkUp would be the ideal solution for this. I might give this is a try, instead of writing my own solution.

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[marks]

Any timeline of reimplementing this? I want to search twitter for keywords but of course this was built mainly for usernames. Is this being actively re-developed or should/can I take it on? Any design specs to work within?

[ginatrapani]

No timeline or design specs. Want to put together a proposal wireframe?

[marks]

I can noodle that and see if I come up with anything. What I dont fully
understand is how to make a search without adding a new twitter user. I
want to mine Twitter for several categories of keywords and the code at
the moment if very user-centric, you know?

Mark

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Gina Trapani wrote:

No timeline or design specs. Want to put together a proposal wireframe?

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[ankit]

When I commented on this feature request, I actually wanted to do this and this
is the exact problem I faced!

The architecture of ThinkUp (from the brief look I took at the codebase
then), is pretty user-centric.

I feel extending it for including search terms would be very useful. And
doing so at a higher level, so that you don't need to add a new user to the
ThinkUp installation to add a search term. Basically, treating a search
term as a user.

Cases where it will be useful:

• Search term for one of your products/app you want to track
• I am doing research where I am collecting local twitter updates (for a
  finite set of relevant hashtags). Similarly, it maybe useful for
  conferences, or other events.

Since, I might not have the time to devote to building this feature the
right way in ThinkUp (sadly :|, ThinkUp is so nice!), the alternative I've
switched to is using
yourTwapperKeeperhttps://github.com/jobrieniii/yourTwapperKeeperfor
archiving tweets and using
d3 http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ for visualizations.

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I can noodle that and see if I come up with anything. What I dont fully
understand is how to make a search without adding a new twitter user. I
want to mine Twitter for several categories of keywords and the code at
the moment if very user-centric, you know?

Mark

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Gina Trapani wrote:

No timeline or design specs. Want to put together a proposal wireframe?

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[pietsch]

I would love to use this feature. I just updated from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8.1 (which went very smoothly just clicking the buttons). Looking at the current source, I see that this code is no longer commented out but can be activated by a “secret” configuration option. I tried adding the following line to config.inc.php:
$THINKUP_CFG['enable_twitter_search'] = true;
Unfortunately, I could not spot any change in the web interface. How can I test the search feature?

[ginatrapani]

The "secret" config bits haven't been released yet, they'd come out in the next release. But just to manage expectations: it doesn't allow keyword searches, just public Twitter username search without OAuth.

But now that Twitter is disallowing that in API version 1.1, we'll have to disable that feature in future releases, anyway. Sorry!

[ginatrapani]

2013 issue tracker cleanup: Closing this ticket due to inactivity.

ThinkUp's focus at the moment is on user-centric data, so keyword searches are out of scope of our current product roadmap. We'd welcome a community plugin for handling keyword searches.