Skip to content

Web tool to build a personalized, dynamic and interactive list of Twitter hot topics

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

panisson/whatshot

Folders and files

NameName
Last commit message
Last commit date

Latest commit

 

History

9 Commits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Repository files navigation

What's Hot on Twitter

Twitter produces daily an incredible amount of real-time information, but lacks of an effective tool to explore which topics are being discussed by users with similar interests. This tool uses an augmented network of Twitter's following users to build a personalized, dynamic and interactive list of hot topics.

If you have a Twitter account, you can access What's Hot on Twitter in this URL: http://whatshot.panisson.com

Dependencies

Core dependencies:

  • sqlalchemy

Websockets server:

  • mod_pywebsocket
  • tweepy
  • simplejson
  • nltk WordNet Lemmatizer
  • twitter-text-python

Web server:

  • Flask
  • OAuth

Installation

First, clone this repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/panisson/whatshot.git

You must have a valid Twitter consumer key and consumer secret to run this application. If you don't have one, go to dev.twitter.com and register a new application.

The data tables for the MySQL database can be created using the SQL in the file 'db.sql'.

After setting the database, change the file 'config.py' with your Twitter consumer key and consumer secret and with the credentials for the MySQL database.

Make sure all dependencies are installed. For mod_pywebsocket, go to the repository directory and get the mod_pywebsocket package by running:

$ svn checkout http://pywebsocket.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/mod_pywebsocket mod_pywebsocket

To start the websockets server, run the pywebsocket standalone server with the command:

$ export PYTHONPATH=. && python mod_pywebsocket/standalone.py -m handler_map.txt -p 8880 -d websockets --log-level=info

To start the Web server, run:

$ export PYTHONPATH=. && python whatshot/app.py

Contributing

If you have a Github account please fork the repository, create a topic branch, and commit your changes. Then submit a pull request from that branch.

License

Written by André Panisson [email protected]
Copyright (C) 2012 André Panisson
You can contact me by email ([email protected]) or write to:
André Panisson, ISI Foundation, Via Alassio 11/c, 10126 Torino, Italy.

About

Web tool to build a personalized, dynamic and interactive list of Twitter hot topics

Resources

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Releases

No releases published

Packages

No packages published