flask-twitterapi

Simple Flask web app, which integrates a hashtag search for geolocalization and displays twitts by country on GoogleMaps.

Live demo

https://ppw2v8syjg.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dev

Setup

Install requirimets: $ pip -r requirements/base.txt
Pupulate your .env file with the following lines (see config_examples)
- export twitteruser='' # Twitter user from which we want to get twitts: "screen_name"
- export consumer_key='' # go here and create your twitter app
- export consumer_secret='' # go to "manage keys and access tokens" to see your consumer_secret key
- export access_token_key='' # download, run this script and follow instructions
- export access_token_secret=''
- export GOOGLEMAPS_KEY='' # get here
- export SECRET_KEY='' # Randomly generated string used by Flask for your cookies and other stuff
Run . .env; python main.py

Features

Responsive Mobile devices desing with Bootstrap
Displays the geolocalised twitts in GoogleMaps, each marker includes a text box with the twitter link to the article or twitt Id.

Docker image

Build or Download Docker image

Build your local Docker image

docker build . -t flask-twitterapi:latest

OR download from Docker hub

docker pull blgo/flask-twitterapi:latest

Run Docker image

Rename your .env file to "env" and run:

. .env; \
docker run --rm --name flask-twitterapi-run \
-e twitteruser="${twitteruser}" \
-e consumer_key="${consumer_key}" \
-e consumer_secret="${consumer_secret}" \
-e access_token_key="${access_token_key}" \
-e access_token_secret="${access_token_secret}" \
-e GOOGLEMAPS_KEY="${GOOGLEMAPS_KEY}" \
-e SECRET_KEY="${SECRET_KEY}" \
-p 80:80 flask-twitterapi:latest

Access the application: http://localhost

TODO

~~Optimise country search, analyse performance using Qcachegrind~~
~~Create .env and zappa_setting example files~~
~~Test Docker image, amend Dockerhub README~~
~~Add https URLs for Twitter images~~
~~Sanitise dependencies~~
Autodeploy to AWS LAMBDA using Travis only for master
Limit Zappa IAM user and roles privileges (edit example config file)
Make tool to analyse code performance: python -m cProfile -o profile_data.pyprof tests/gettwitts_tests.py python -m pyprof2calltree -i profile_data.pyprof -k && https://gitlab.com/blgo/learn-more-python-the-hard-way/blob/master/ex6-find/find.py comand line arguments parser.