How to connect stream/search API to CouchDB via Django?

[lowspace]

simple idea maybe Twitter API - Django API - CouchDB

• [ ] what is CouchDB

• [ ] what is Django

• [ ] what is API

• [ ] what do we want?

• [ ] how to connect Django and CouchDB via API

• [ ] what is the classical method to feed tweets to CouchDB? lowspace/COMP90024-Project#5

[lowspace]

Problem Analysis

What we want: feed the Twitter Stream API to CouchDB in real-time.

There are two potential methods:

1. Django serves as the bridge to connect Twitter and CouchDB;
2. Directly push Twitter data into CouchDB.

I can realise it by reproducing the code in couchdb

Framework

stream API yields data (JSON) -> Djando (JSON) -> CouchDB receives data (JSON)

In the receive progress, the CouchDB should:

• check whether this uid is in the udb

  • if True -> tell the client to feed the tweet into tdb? or to crawl all the unstored tweets?
  • if False, POST the JSON{'uid':xxx, 'city:xxxx}; -> tell client to crawl the timeline and feet these tweets to tdb

• [ ] how to check whether a value is in a database in CouchDB? lowspace/COMP90024-Project#3