Twitter HashTag Feed

Fetch tweets of a given “#HashTag” every few minutes and store only the newly found tweets in a database. User can see the tweets for a given “#HashTag”, which auto refreshes via socket.io events.

How to setup

1. Clone this repository
2. cd to repository root directory
3. Execute npm install and bower install
4. Create a file config/main.json and specify below configuration

   {
     "twitter": {
       "consumer_key"      : "",
       "consumer_secret"   : "",
       "access_token"      : "",
       "access_token_secret": ""
     },
     "debug" : false,
     "db" :{
       "base_url": "mongodb://localhost/"
     }
   }
   

5. Execute grunt command
6. Execute npm start command
7. Access http://127.0.0.1:3000/

Demo

Demo.

References

1. https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search
2. https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelines
3. https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/cursoring
4. https://community.risingstack.com/node-js-twitter-bot-tutorial/
5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25685227/how-to-display-user-profile-image-in-circle
6. http://2ality.com/2012/07/large-integers.html
7. http://getbootstrap.com/components/#media-default
8. https://limonte.github.io/sweetalert2/
9. https://github.com/sroze/ngInfiniteScroll