Tweet poller for the postcard project. Try the live deployed JSON endpoint.

Setup

Get the code:

$ git clone [email protected]:diybio/diybio-postcard-tweets.git
$ cd diybio-postcard-tweets

Configure your local environment by creating a .env file:

$ cat .env
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=your-consumer-key-here
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=your-consumer-secret-here
TWITTER_OAUTH_KEY=your-key-here
TWITTER_OAUTH_SECRET=your-secret-here
MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/your-local-dbname-here

Install dependencies and start:

$ bundle
(...)
Your bundle is complete!

$ foreman start
17:18:46 web.1  | started with pid 95407

Now you can visit http://localhost:5000.

Deploy

After pulling down the git repo, add the heroku repo as a remote:

git remote add heroku [email protected]:diybio-postcard-tweets.git

Deploy on Heroku with MongoHQ and scheduler addons.

git push heroku

Scheduler addon runs:

TWITTER_SEARCH=desired-search bundle exec ruby poll_recent.rb

Leave TWITTER_SEARCH blank to default to search term of #diybiohi.