twitter

Documentation

Overview

Package twitter provides a radically simplified Twitter API.

To use this package, you must create your own Twitter app.

Instructions:

• Goto http://dev.twitter.com
• Sign in
• Click on your profile icon and goto “My applications”
• Click “Create a new application”
• Fill out the form (don’t mind the callback URL)
• After creating your app, click on “Create my access token”

Now you have all the values needed to fill the `Credentials` struct.

Index

• func Hashtags(cred *Credentials, Hashtags ...string) (<-chan *Tweet, error)
• type Credentials
• type Tweet
• type TwitterUser

Functions

func Hashtags

func Hashtags(cred *Credentials, Hashtags ...string) (<-chan *Tweet, error)

Hashtags returns a channel over which tweets can be received, which match at least one of the given hashtags.

Types

type Credentials

type Credentials struct {
	ConsumerKey    string `json:"consumer_key"`
	ConsumerSecret string `json:"consumer_secret"`
	AccessToken    string `json:"access_token"`
	AccessSecret   string `json:"access_secret"`
}

type Tweet

type Tweet struct {
	Text   string
	Date   time.Time
	Author TwitterUser
}

type TwitterUser

type TwitterUser struct {
	Name           string
	ScreenName     string
	ProfilePicture image.Image
}