node-red-contrib-twitter-stream

Node-red node for querying the Twitter streaming API.

Further information on the parameters for filtering real-time tweets can be found in the documentation:

• Standard streaming API request parameters
• Filtering Tweets by location

Be aware of the Geo Guidelines provided by Twitter for developers.

Features

Connect to the Twitter streaming API and...

• Get tweets of specific users (follow)
• Get tweets of specific topics (track)
• Get tweets for a specific region described by a geographic bounding box (locations)

Configuration

• Get a Twitter dev account from https://dev.twitter.com
• Create a Twitter App on https://apps.twitter.com
• Choose Twitter users / hashtags or random search strings
• Alternatively provide latitude and longitude coordinates describing the North, West, East and South extents of a geographic bounding box.