Tawlk

http://github.com/lrvick/tawlk

About

A flexible framework for searching, collecting, archiving, interpreting, and responding to public social media, with a scalable web interface.

To learn more about the overall concept check out:

Vision and Direction - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Vision-and-direction

To learn more about what is under the hood so far take a look at the breakdown of the libraries:

Tawlk Foundation Libraries (TFL) - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Tawlk-Foundation-Libraries-(TFL)

Current Features

• Ability to watch/store public mentions of a given keyword across many major social media sites.
• Format all data into the Unified Social Media Format (USMF)
  • https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Unified-Social-Media-Format-%28USMF%29
• Other stuff!

Usage / Installation

There are many different "recipes" to get Tawlk going depending on your needs.

Links to some of the most common configurations are detailed below:

• Local Developer - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Local-developer

  • Intended for people just wanting the shortest path to seeing the stack work on a local system, even if speed is less than ideal. Perfect for pulling the repo down and having what you need to implement and test some new changes.

• Single Server - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Single-server

  • For those wanting to run the stack as a dedicated service on a single server. This is ideal for projects that will require Tawlk stack to be able to run reliably for long periods of time. If you are only granting the general public access to data on a small set of pre-defined terms, or are only going to be using Tawlk internally, then this setup should take a moderate beating.

• Cloud Controller - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Cloud-controller

  • If you intend to use tawlk in a way that you expect large amounts of web traffic then a cloud setup might be in order. This will get you set up with a master server capable of creating and managing cloud instances to deal with a large amount of users/simultaneous search terms.

• Cloud Instance - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Cloud-instance

  • The setup one should have to do nothing but collect and save data, and accept instructions from a "Cloud Contoller"

Notes

Use at your own risk. You may be eaten by a grue.

Questions/Comments? Please check us out on IRC via irc://udderweb.com/#uw

If you are a developer and want to help please have a peek at our Todo

• https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Todo

Also, for more insight into design decisions and the related material we are reading as well as competing solutions, take a look at our Research Resources - https://github.com/lrvick/tawlk/wiki/Research-resources