flume-twitter

This is a flume plugin for twitter streaming.

How to build

Maven2 or later is needed.

Download or git clone this project.

Build it as follows:

$ mvn clean package

You will find a packaged jar file in target directory.

You can also download the packaged files from the following URL.
https://github.com/ueshin/flume-twitter/tree/gh-pages/releases/st/happy_camper/flume/flume-twitter

How to install

Put the jar file into ${FLUME_HOME}/lib directory or add to FLUME_CLASSPATH.

Add the following configuration to your flume-site.xml:

<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>flume.plugin.classes</name>
    <value>st.happy_camper.flume.twitter.TwitterStreamingPlugin</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

Restart flume processes then you will see "Twitter" source in "extn" page of Flume Master web ui.

How to configure

Configure "Twitter" source as follows:

Twitter("<your twitter id>", "<password>"[, <connectionTimeout[ms]>])

and any sink.

You will find Twitter Streaming data in your sink.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Author

Takuya UESHIN (ueshin@happy-camper.st)