hiptweets

Print tweets matching specific search terms to a HipChat room

Designed to run on Heroku for free.

Configuration

Locally you copy config.sample.yml to config.yml and fill things in.

On Heroku, set the following ENV vars:

TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY
TWITTER_SECRET_KEY
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN
HIPCHAT_ROOM

And what you actually want to search for:

HIPTWEET_SEARCH -- comma-delimited string like vhx,foo,bar
HIPTWEET_USER_IDS -- comma-delimited string of Twitter user IDs via @username -> id lookup tool

e.g.

heroku config:add TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY="" TWITTER_SECRET_KEY="" TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY="" TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=""
heroku config:add HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN="" HIPCHAT_ROOM=""
heroku config:add HIPTWEET_SEARCH="vhx.tv,foobar"
heroku config:add HIPTWEET_USER_IDS="1234583,9876522"

HipChat room can be either name or ID

Running locally

bundle install
bundle exec rake twitter:stream

Or how it's run on Heroku, to test the Procfile:

gem install heroku
foreman start

Running on Heroku

heroku create hiptweets-jamiew --stack=cedar
heroku config:add TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY="" TWITTER_SECRET_KEY="" TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY="" TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=""
heroku config:add HIPCHAT_API_TOKEN="" HIPCHAT_ROOM=""
heroku config:add HIPTWEET_SEARCH="vhx.tv,foobar"
heroku config:add HIPTWEET_USER_IDS="1234583,9876522"
git push heroku master
heroku scale stream=1

You can use heroku logs -t to watch output

Notes

TwitterSearch is a work-in-progress
Request: a node.js version that runs inside Hubot, and also responds to "@hubot search twitter 'my string'"

Authors

Jamie Dubs (@jamiew)

Copyright

All source code made freely available under an MIT License

Contributing

Fork the project
Create a new branch for your feature or bugfix
Send a pull request

Following the contributor-friendly practices of Rubinius and FAT Lab, anyone who submits a patch which is accepted is granted both commit and credit/attribution bits.

neilmiddleton/hiptweets