echidna-spider

Setup

Install redis-server on Debian

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Or on Mac OS X

brew install redis

Ruby Environment Setup

https://github.com/transist/echidna/wiki/Ruby-Environment-Setup

Usage

Create Tencent Weibo account

Visit http://t.qq.com and sign up to create an Tencent Weibo account, this account will be used as Tencent Weibo client developer account and Tencent Weibo agent account later.

Create Tencent Weibo app

• Visit https://open.t.qq.com/ and sign in with the account just created.
• Click "我的应用" to register as developer for the first time.
• Click "我的应用" again to create an app. (Tencent changed their policy recently, and seems only mobile app meet our needs.)

Run spider

bin/spider

Notable environment variables for configuration:

ECHIDNA_SPIDER_TENCENT_APP_KEY
ECHIDNA_SPIDER_TENCENT_APP_SECRET

The app key and secret of Tencent Weibo app created from https://open.t.qq.com/

ECHIDNA_SPIDER_HOST

The hostname running spider, which must be accessable from your browser. The Tencent Weibo OAuth process will construct redirect_uri with this hostname.

ECHIDNA_SPIDER_DEBUG

Set it to true to help debugging spider:

* Tweets gathering will ignore timestamp of latest known tweet, and always start from 2 days ago.

Check header part of bin/spider for other configurable environment variables.

Add a Tencent Weibo agent

curl 'http://localhost:9000/agents/tencent/new'
# => {"authorize_url":"https://open.t.qq.com/cgi-bin/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=801317572&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A9000%2Fagents%2Ftencent%2Fcreate"}

Visit authorize_url in your browser, sign in with the Tencent Weibo account just created, to complete the OAuth process to authenticate the agent.

Each Tencent Weibo agent will gather new tweets from its home timeline and publish to :add_tweet channel every 5 seconds.