ewu_cs527_f17
Project Repository for CS527, Modern Database Systems
Author: Matt Zinke mzinke@eagles.ewu.net
Author: Raymond Swannack
Introduction
A stream reader for Twitters sample and filter streams.
This sofwtare will connect to Twitter's streaming API endpoint and recieve, record, and categorize tweet data.
Requirements
- Node.js v8.x
- MySQL 5.7
Requires oauth and mysql npm modules. Navigate to the repo root directory and enter the following commands:
$ npm install oauth$ npm install mysql
First Time Setup
Run mysql and Create a MySQL User Ex:
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'cs527'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'megaman4';
To initialize the DB, Navigate to repo root directory and type:
$ cd bin
$ ./init_mysql.sh
Populate myconfig with Twitter credentials:
First you will need to create Twitter app credentials here: https://apps.twitter.com/
Once you have created an access token and consumer key, enter them into myconfig
From repo root:
cd lib
cp myconfig.example myconfig
Open myconfig in a text editor, populate this object with auth values for the Twitter app.
Usage
Navigate to the repo root directory and type:
node .
This will start the twitter stream reader as well as the server for the HTML UI. The default port is 8000. If run locally, connect to the server via http://localhost:8000/