twitto_be was a real-time twitter monitoring dashboard, performing live social network analysis on hashtags.
Twitto.be is a node.js application.
After cloning the repository, follow these steps:
- run
npm install - Create and complete a
params.jsonfile in the root directory, usingparams-sample.jsonas a base:
ports: the ports express.js and socket.io should listen to.monitor: definition of the tweets to monitor, one or more of the following:monitor.description: user-friendly description of the tracked topics.monitor.track: set of keywords to monitor in the twitter streaming API. Phrases may be used - see Twitter'strackstream parameter documentation for details (optional).monitor.list: Id of a twitter list whose users' tweets should be monitored (optional)monitor.boundingBox: geolocation coordinates box to monitor in the twitter streaming API (optional).
twitter: enter your twitter app credentials.- update the other contents of the file as suitable.
run npm start
Deployment scripts are included, you may need to adapt them to your own setup. Edit deploy:prod scripts in package.json to modify the configuration:
- debian stable linux machine (may work in other unix environments)
- The application (
app.js) is launched and maintained up by a systemd process callednode-twitto - The application is deployed in the following directory:
/home/srv-node-mango/twitto - The owner of
/home/srv-node-mango/twitto, is usersrv-node-mango
- Run
npm run build - If no error was met in previous step, run
npm run deploy:prod
Similar script exists for a test environment ( deploy:test ).
Your participation is welcome.
- to report bugs, make suggestions or to ask any question, please enter a github issue. Please first perform a search before reporting an issue in order to avoid entering duplicates.
- to correct issues, improve code, send a pull request. Try to keep your commits clean. If you want to change any significant part of code and want it integrated inside twitto_be, please discuss about it before working on it.