Tweet Stream
The Tweet Stream operator receives a stream of tweets filtered by some key words specified in the configuration using the Twitter Streaming API.
, it outputs each received tweet as a
separate Data Pipeline message where its body contains the text of the tweet, and its
header contains metadata about the tweet. To use the operator, you must have some keys
and tokens to access the twitter API. For that, you need to create an application and
navigate to the configuration of your application. Do not share the secret key and token
with anyone. Notice that if you run multiple graphs with the same credentials the
twitter api may block the stream in the latest graph due to rate limiting.
Configuration Parameters
|
Parameter |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| filterWords | string | The key words used to filter the tweet stream. The field cannot be empty. Commas ',' can be used between the terms in the input string as an OR logic operator, and spaces can be used as the 'AND' operator. |
| language | string | Mandatory. Filter the tweet by the given language. |
|
consumerKey |
string |
Mandatory. Your Twitter Application Consumer Key (API Key). |
|
consumerSecret |
string |
Mandatory. Your Twitter Application Consumer Secret (API Secret). |
|
accessToken |
string |
Mandatory. The token used to make API requests on behalf of your account. |
|
accessTokenSecret |
string |
Mandatory. The secret token used to make API requests on behalf of your account. |
Input
None
Output
|
Output |
Type |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
outTweet |
message |
A Data Pipeline message where the body contains the tweet text,
and the header contain metadata about the tweet. The type fields in
the metadata can be found at https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object |
|
outStatus |
string |
A status string that contain a status code returned by the twitter api. |