twitter-stream-cli 0.2.1

Twitter streams. This is a cli tool and also a npm lib.

• Track multiples words
• Output results in several formats
• Send results to a Firebase Database
• Instructions to run severals instances with pm2

Install

This tool requires node.js. I suggest you to use nvm

npm install twitter-stream-cli -g

Configure .env file

1. Create an .env file:

touch .env
# or use wget
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saitodisse/twitter-stream-cli/master/.env-example -O .env

2. Create an app on https://apps.twitter.com/ and put keys on .env file:

# Twitter API keys: https://apps.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY=__XXX__
CONSUMER_SECRET=__XXX__
TOKEN=__XXX__
TOKEN_SECRET=__XXX__

# [optional] Firebase: https://console.firebase.google.com
FIREBASE_APIKEY=__XXX__
FIREBASE_DATABASEURL=__XXX__

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Run as cli tool

# will track banana
twitter-stream-cli banana

# will track banana tweets OR chocolate tweets
twitter-stream-cli banana chocolate

# will track banana and chocolate in the same tweet message
twitter-stream-cli "banana chocolate"

Format output

twitter-stream-cli banana --short          #output: @user (lang): 80 char tweet text
twitter-stream-cli banana --long           #output: @user (lang, id, date): full tweet text
twitter-stream-cli banana --json           #output: full json result
twitter-stream-cli banana --json-formatted #output: full formatted json result
twitter-stream-cli banana --json-inspect   #output: inspect json result with colors

Send json result to Firebase

1. Edit .env file. Replace __XXX__ on FIREBASE_URL=https://__XXX__.firebaseio.com:

2. Send results

twitter-stream-cli banana --send

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Run multiples instances with pm2

We can easily run multiples instances of this tool with pm2.

Install pm2

npm i pm2 -g

Create configuration files

Create app.json

mkdir pm2
touch pm2/app.json

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Edit app.json:

{
  "apps" : [
    {
      "name"              : "banana",
      "script"            : "twitter-stream-cli",
      "args"              : ["banana"],
      "log_date_format"   : "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss Z",
      "autorestart"       : true,
      "exec_mode"         : "fork",
      "max_memory_restart": "100M",
    },
    {
      "name"              : "chocolate",
      "script"            : "twitter-stream-cli",
      "args"              : ["chocolate"],
      "log_date_format"   : "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss Z",
      "autorestart"       : true,
      "exec_mode"         : "fork",
      "max_memory_restart": "100M",
    },
  ]
}

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Now you can start watching banana & cholocate in separeted instances. This will send to differents firebase URLs.

# edit pm2/app.json with your tracking terms
pm2 start pm2/app.json

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Check is everything is running ok:

# you can see logs and monitore
pm2 list
pm2 monit

# delete and stop all instances
pm2 delete all

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Use as lib

Install

npm install twitter-stream-cli --save

Use

// ES5
var TwiterStream require('twitter-stream-cli');
var twiterStream = new TwiterStream({
  track: 'banana'
});
return twiterStream.run();

// ES6
import TwiterStream from 'twitter-stream-cli';
const twiterStream = new TwiterStream({
  track: 'banana'
});
return twiterStream.run();

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Test and run locally

git clone git@github.com:saitodisse/twitter-stream-cli.git
cd twitter-stream-cli
npm install
npm test
node ./bin/twitter-stream-cli.js -h

# all available tasks
gulp help