A Real-time Tweet Analyser and Repo

Project Description

A Restful API that retrieves specific topic related Tweets every 15 minutes from the Twitter API.

Tweets retrieved are parsed, stored in Tweet objects and persisted to a Postgres Database.

Tweets are then exposed via a GET endpoint - http://localhost:8080/api/v1/tweets

Setup

You will have to have a Twitter Developer account and Twitter API Keys

Set the hardcoded variables to the keys retrieved in TweetController.java

CONSUMER_KEY = [YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY]
CONSUMER_SECRET = [YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET]
ACCESS_TOKEN = [YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = [YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET]

You need to have the following installed:

• Java 8
• PostgreSQL
• Maven

Run

• mvn clean install
• Start the Spring Application