Tweets Gatherer For GitHub Projects

Simple console app in Scala which fetch tweets for most popular GitHub repositories by keyword.

Application first searches GitHub for keyword, sort projects by stars, limit the number of retrieved project by 10 and then fetches most recent tweets for these projects.

Implementation details

App is built using SBT + Scala + Spring Boot.

Build Details

Application can be run via either com.github.tweets.TweetsGatherer Main Class or via the built Jar file.

• In order to build the jar file call sbt clean oneJar

• in order to launch the jar call

java -jar tweets-for-github-projects-gatherer_2.11-1.0-one-jar.jar --keyword="star wars" --output=out1.json

• keyword argument is mandatory. App will fail without it. If no ouput argument is provided, then json will be printed in console

• there should application.properties file next to the jar with two properties e.g.

twitter.consumer.key=xvz1evFS4wEEPTGEFPHBog
twitter.consumer.secret=L8qq9PZyRg6ieKGEKhZolGC0vJWLw8iEJ88DRdyOg

otherwise program will fail. Key and Secret should be valid twitter keys. They are private so they are not provided.

• in order to launch tests call

sbt test