GeoTwitter Search

A webapp for searching geotagged Tweets built using the Twitter API, ElasticSearch, and ASP.NET MVC

By Ryan Gray, Jesse Reyes, Joshua Riley, and Melissa Santos

Submission Details

• Python scripts for connecting to Twitter and ElasticSearch are in the TwitterStream/ folder
• Tweet files are in TwitterStream/geo_tweets/. Files are named after the date and time of when the Tweet collection started.
• The files for running the web app are in the TwitterWebSearch/ folder

Built With

• Python Twitter Tools for getting Tweets
• ElasticSearch for indexing Tweets
• ASP.NET MVC for the web application interface and Twitter Geolocation map.

How to Use

1. Method 1
   • Download Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017
   • After running the software, open the Team Explorer tab located on the right
   • Under Local Git Repositories, select the Clone option
   • Enter https://github.com/CS172-UCR/GeoTwitter-Search.git as the URL of the git repo
   • Enable the Recursively Clone Submodules option
   • Navigate to the solution folder under GeoTwitter-Search/TwitterWebSearch/TwitterWebSearch
   • Open TwitterWebSearch.sln
   • Run ISS Express (preferably with Google Chrome as the browser) by clicking the green play button at the top of the screen

Contributors

• Ryan Gray
• Jesse Reyes
• Joshua Riley
• Melissa Santos