The Twitter River plugin allows index twitter stream.
In order to install the plugin, simply run: bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter/1.2.0.
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| Twitter Plugin | ElasticSearch |
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| master | 0.20 -> master |
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| 1.2.0 | 0.19 |
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| 1.1.0 | 0.19 |
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| 1.0.0 | 0.18 |
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The twitter river indexes the public twitter stream, aka the hose, and makes it searchable.
Creating the twitter river can be done using:
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_river/my_twitter_river/_meta -d '
{
"type" : "twitter",
"twitter" : {
"user" : "twitter_user",
"password" : "twitter_passowrd"
},
"index" : {
"index" : "my_twitter_river",
"type" : "status",
"bulk_size" : 100
}
}
'
The above lists all the options controlling the creation of a twitter river. The user and password are required in order to connect to the twitter stream.
Tweets will be indexed once a bulk_size of them have been accumulated.
Filtered stream can also be supported (as per the twitter stream API). Filter stream can be configured to support tracks, follow, and locations. The configuration is the same as the twitter API (a single comma separated string value, or using json arrays). Here is an example:
{
"type" : "twitter",
"twitter" : {
"user" : "me",
"password" : "123456",
"filter" : {
"tracks" : "test,something,please",
"follow" : "111,222,333",
"locations" : "-122.75,36.8,-121.75,37.8,-74,40,-73,41"
}
}
}
Here is an array based configuration example:
{
"type" : "twitter",
"twitter" : {
"user" : "me",
"password" : "123456",
"filter" : {
"tracks" : ["test", "something"],
"follow" : [111, 222, 333],
"locations" : [ [-122.75,36.8], [-121.75,37.8], [-74,40], [-73,41]]
}
}
}
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