Evented Twitter Streaming API Experiment

To better familiarize myself with evented code, I wrote up this simple project that makes use of the Twitter Streaming API, Node.js (or EventMachine) and Websockets.

For the server, you can either run Node.js or Ruby EventMachine. The Node.js setup makes use of Socket.IO-node and Socket.IO to add support for browsers that don't support the Websockets protocol (such as Firefox 3.x). The EventMachine setup only works with browsers that support Websockets. You can check if your browser supports Websockets at http://websocket.org.

Demo

You can checkout the demo I have currently running on Amazon EC2.

Running via Node.js

Clone/fork this project
Install Node.js
Install npm (optional but recommended)
Install Socket.IO-node
```
  npm install socket.io
```
Install evented-twitter
```
  npm install evented-twitter
```
Modify node-tweetbubs.js to include your Twitter username/password
```
  var t = new tstream('username', 'password');
```
Start the Node.js server
```
  node node-tweetbubs.js
```
Open tweetbubs.html in your browser. By default, this html file is set to communicate with Node.js through Socket.IO.

Running via EventMachine

Clone/fork this project
Install Bundler and run
```
  bundle
```
OR install each gem in Gemfile individually
Modify em-tweetbubs.rb to include your Twitter username/password
```
  :auth => "username:password"
```
Start the EventMachine server
```
  ruby em-tweetbubs.rb
```

Modify tweetbubs.html to use Websockets only (not Socket.IO). To accomplish this, remove

  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="socket.io.js"></script>

then replace the following:

  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="socket.io-client.js"></script>

with:

  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="websocket.js"></script>

Open tweetbubs.html in your browser

raid5/evented-tweetbubs

Evented Twitter Streaming API Experiment

Demo

Running via Node.js

Running via EventMachine