Twitter Search with API v1.1

README.md

Description

Simple Dashing widget (and associated job) to display a Twitter search. Uses Twitter API v1.1.

##Dependencies

twitter

Add it to dashing's gemfile:

gem 'twitter'

and run bundle install. Everything should work now :)

##Usage

Put the twitter-search.rb file in your /jobs folder.

To include the widget in a dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="twitter_mentions" data-view="Comments" data-title="Search Tweets" style="background-color: #71388a"></div>
</li>

##Settings

You'll need to add the twitter configs for your desired account to the job.

Tweets are fetched every 10 minutes, but you can change that by editing the job schedule.

twitter-search.rb

require 'twitter'

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY'
  config.consumer_secret = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET'
  config.oauth_token = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN'
  config.oauth_token_secret = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET'
end

search_term = URI::encode('#todayilearned')

SCHEDULER.every '10m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
  tweets = Twitter.search("#{search_term}").results
  if tweets
    tweets.map! do |tweet|
      { name: tweet.user.name, body: tweet.text, avatar: tweet.user.profile_image_url_https }
    end
    send_event('twitter_mentions', comments: tweets)
  end
end

I've followed your directions but nothing is being pulled into the widget when I start the dashboard. Was there anything else I needed to add?

@allisonmin did you gem install twitter ?

I'm getting a weird SSL error whenever I launch dashing.. suspect it is coming from the twitter gem.

"SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=unknown state"

Could be coming from the fact that I'm using this behind a crappy proxy that has a tendency to mangle SSL...

Any ideas?

The issue seems to be some kind of jank around Twitter's endpoint/gem. If you throw a OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE in the top of the file, everything works fine.

The right solution is to bundle the cacert.pem, not to disable SSL...

Here is an update version of the gist with support for the twitter gem v5.0.0 and a fix for SSL: https://gist.github.com/zimbatm/7573436

Don't know if this solves your problem @allisonmin but I got "undefined" when I ran the widget searching for @pittisea because no one had retweeted or @'d us. I retweeted a tweet from my personal account and that showed in the widget.
I removed the @ and the search started showing our tweets as well.

Hi everyone, working well for me but images aren't being shown. Do you know how we can get images to appear?

First of all thanks jeroenbegyn for sharing this script. It works great for me.

I also wanted to display the time of the tweet and was able to get this from 'tweet.created_at' in the .rb file but didn't know the exact steps to display this within the dashing dashboard (.erb file).
Can someone kindly suggest the exact solution for this please?

Thanks

Works perfectly for me. Thank you for sharing this information.

Works well for me but I can't figure out how to change the search topic. Currently it only finds #todayilearned. I tried changing this to line in the "twitter.rb" file but I still get the same twitter stuff.
search_term = URI::encode('#bettercallsaul'))
TIA.

Hi @paulbz, it appears that the content of tweet.user.profile_image_url_https has changed and does now contains more data. I have modified the script like that:

avatar: tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.scheme + "://" + tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.host + tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.path

Hope it helps.

Has something changed recently?
Was originally getting Cannot authenticate errors on the Twitter Widget that came with dashing, switched to your version. now getting this error:

twitter-search.rb:3:in <top (required)>': undefined methodconfigure' for Twitter:Module (NoMethodError)

And dashing fails to start - any ideas?

I've the same problem as @OliPassey and can't find where it come from

gem 'twitter' doesn't work. Is this project outdated and not functional or did it ever work?