twittertail 0.6

Tail a twitter account from the command line.

twittertail

This python app monitors a Twitter account for tweet activity, using the asyncio library to create an event loop for the life of the running app. On execution, the 5 most recent tweets are displayed (like tail, so oldest to newest), and every 10 minutes new tweet activity is displayed. The app also includes an inbuilt HTTP API to retrieve all displayed tweets so far.

setup

This demo requires Python 3 (tested on Python 3.7.5+). To install:

pip install twittertail

cli

The cli program can be run like so:

twittertail -u TWITTER_USERNAME

See -h for more options.

HTTP

By passing in a -w argument, a simple HTTP server will run, allowing you to query the tweets collected so far, which is returned in a application/json response as a JSON object.

twittertail -u TWITTER_USERNAME -w

Get tweets via:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9000/tweets

Run as a Docker container

To run this as a Docker container, first build the image from the app's root directory:

sudo docker build -t twittertail .

And then run the container, passing in the Twitter username you want to monitor as the first argument:

sudo docker run --rm -p 9000:9000 twittertail tinycarebot

This also runs the HTTP server on port 9000.