craziks-creator / Tweetie

Simple web app for twitter authorization and analysis developed in Flask

Tweetie

Django Implementation : https://github.com/pawangeek/Tweetie2

Introduction

Summary

• Project
  • Fetch you Home Timeline Tweets from Twitter Account
  • Twitter Social Login
  • Able to analyze the tweets having links in the text area and user who share maximum number of tweets having links

• BACKEND
  • Using Flask for storing sessions and doing analysis part
  • Authlib for Twitter oauth authorization

• FRONTEND
  • Flask defaults Jinja2 Templating Engine
  • Bootstrap, Jquery for some styling

Requirements

• BACKEND
  • Python 3.8.5
  • Flask 1.1.2
  • Authlib 0.14.3

- FRONTEND - [JQuery](https://code.jquery.com/) - [Bootstrap 4.5](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/getting-started/download/)
- Database - [Heroky Postgres](https://www.heroku.com/postgres) - [SQLAlchemy (As ORM)](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/)
- Deploy - [Heroku](https://dashboard.heroku.com/)

Project Structure

.
├── static
│   └── imgs
│       ├── icon
│       └── twitter
├── templates
│   ├── about.html
│   ├── analyze.html
│   ├── base.html
│   ├── error.html
│   ├── index.html
│   └── tweets.html
├── app.py
├── config.py
├── Procfile
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt

How to Reproduce

• Step 1: Clone the Project

git clone https://github.com/pawangeek/Tweetie
cd Tweetie

• Step 2: Create a virtual environment

# For mac and linux users
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

# For window users
py -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\activate

• Step 3: Load all dependencies from requirements.txt

pip install -r requirement.txt

• Step 4: Create a project at Heroku and link that in your local enviroment

-> Go to https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps and create a new project
-> Login from remote by heroku login
-> COnnect remote to this app

• Step 5: Create a postgres database from Heroku to deploy

Go to https://data.heroku.com/ select heroku postgres
Bind you recently create app and get the url for database

• Step 6: Put the postgres database link into into app.config['SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI'] in app

• Step 7: Open Python terminal and create database tables like this

from app import db 
db.create_all()

• Step 8: Go to twitter developer console

Add callback url : http://127.0.0.1:5000/auth
Another callback url http://[your-webapp]-herokuapp.com/auth

• Step 9: Get the twitter_client_id and twitter_client_secret from that twitter dev console

# Add them here
TWITTER_CLIENT_ID = ''
TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET = ''

• Step 10 Now deploy it to heroku

git init .
git commit -am "Make it awesome"
git origin heroku master

• Step 11 Boom you will see you this app running on website/ localhost.