/TweetMapping

A flask app that pushes the most current 200 tweets to a leaflet map.

Primary LanguagePython

TweetMapping

A Flask app that pushes the most current 100 tweets with coordinates to a leaflet map.

Installation

  1. Install Python 2 (if not installed)
  2. Clone this repository (or download as zip)
  3. Open terminal/cmd and navigate to this repo
  4. Run pip install -r requirement.txt to install all dependencies
  5. In main.py input your Twitter Developer/App Access Tokens/Keys. See here to sign up for a dev account.

Running it

  1. Run main.py (python main.py)
  2. In your web browser, navigate to localhost:5000
  3. You should see a webmap with blue markers appearing and disappearing