README.md

Real-Time-Twitter-Stream

Stream live tweets across the world in real time on a world map.

This web app attaches to the Twitter Streaming API and extracts tweets with geo data using an open source python library Tweepy that act as a communicator to Twitter API.

Installing and running

• Install Flask a server side framework for Python.

pip install flask

• Clone the repo

https://github.com/7saheelahmed/Real-Time-Twitter-Stream.git   

• Create a Twitter App account on Twitter Developer Platform and use access tokens for api request authentication.

• Install Tweepy

pip install tweepy

• Go to your flask folder open scripts and run activate on terminal to start the server.

cd flask\Scripts
activate

• Now go to repository and run app.py on terminal to start the application

cd Real-Time-Twitter-Stream
python app.py

• Go to your http://localhost:5000 And that's it !!

This is how it works

Results

Resources

• Flask
• Twitter Streaming API
• Tweepy
• Leaflet Js
• AJAX/Jquery