tweets

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Tweets

Stream tweets to your CLI

Installation

go get gitlab.com/hackebrot/tweets

Streaming API

Connecting to the Twitter Statuses Stream requires authentication via OAuth1.

Please generate tokens (read-only access level) and set the following environment variables:

• TWEETS_CONSUMER_KEY - your Consumer Key (API Key)
• TWEETS_CONSUMER_SECRET - your Consumer Secret (API Secret)
• TWEETS_ACCESS_TOKEN - your Access Token
• TWEETS_ACCESS_SECRET - your Access Token Secret

Usage

With auth environment variables in place you can now run tweets.

To stream tweets related to Golang run the following:

$ tweets -track Golang

For tweets related to Golang or gophercon separate the keywords with a comma:

$ tweets -track "Golang,gophercon"

If you want to limit your search to tweets that contain #golang, twitter and API use a space:

$ tweets -track "#golang twitter API"

And finally to track tweets that match either both #FOSS and community, or both golang and twitter:

$ tweets -track "#FOSS community,golang twitter"

You can find out more about about track semantics in the official API docs.

Format

• blue bold for the twitter handle of the author, e.g. @hackebrot
• yellow for hashtags, e.g. #golang
• underline for URLs, e.g. https://gitlab.com/hackebrot/tweets
• green for mentioned users, e.g. @francesc
• default color for a tweet's text, e.g. Stream tweets to your CLI

just for func

Tweets made an appearance on episode #4 of just for func, a YouTube series about Go by Francesc Campoy.

Francesc reviewed and refactored the source code to be more idiomatic and explains his thoughts while modifying the code.