chrismytton / twistofpepper

node.js and socket.io Twitter streaming demo

twistofpepper

Realtime twitter streams using node, socket.io and sammy.js.

Install

First you need to grab the git repo and install the dependencies using npm.

$ git clone https://github.com/hecticjeff/twistofpepper
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$ cd twistofpepper
$ npm install
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Usage

The app reads a list of terms on stdin and watches the Twitter streaming API for any mention of them.

Create a file and place one term on each line, in the example below, I've called it things.txt.

$ cat things.txt
node.js
coffeescript
socket.io
$ npm start < things.txt

> twistofpepper@0.0.0 start /Users/chris/github/hecticjeff/twistofpepper
> node server.js

   info  - socket.io started
Tracking 'node.js'
Tracking 'coffeescript'
Tracking 'socket.io'
@Goyapa: node.js http://t.co/17CnxTw
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Copyright (c) 2011, Chris Mytton