ChristopherZhong / twitter-following-management-tool

twitter-following-management-tool

Building this simple web app is my attempt to learning more about the continuous delivery process using existing tools/libraries/frameworks. The code in this repository is heavily based on https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-accessing-twitter (https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-twitter/), which is a great starting point for me.

Libraries

• Spring Framework (https://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/)

• Spring Boot (https://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/)

• Spring Social (https://projects.spring.io/spring-social/)

• Spring Social Twitter (https://projects.spring.io/spring-social-twitter/)

Tools

• Gradle (https://gradle.org/)

• Travis CI (https://travis-ci.org/)

• Heroku (https://heroku.com/)

What does it do?

This is a self-contained Spring Boot application that accesses profile data of a Twitter user and a list of people that user is following.

Currently, it just shows the first 20 friends of a user.

The application can be accessed at https://enigmatic-anchorage-9135.herokuapp.com/.

Coming soon

The following features have yet to be implemented (in no particular order):

• Show the time since the last tweet of the user’s friends

• Navigate through all friends of the user

• Remembering authorization given by a Twitter user

What you’ll need to build

If you would like to build your this application, you will need the following:

• JDK 1.8

• Your own keys from Twitter (a guide can be https://spring.io/guides/gs/register-twitter-app/)

Once both requirements are met, start by including the keys in the application.properties (src/main/resources/application.properties) file.

spring.social.twitter.appId={{put app ID here}}
spring.social.twitter.appSecret={{put app secret here}}

Summary