tumblr.go

package main

import (
  "bufio"
	"encoding/json"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	username, password, client := "", "", new(http.Client)

	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?track=tumblr", nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	req.SetBasicAuth(username, password)
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	reader := bufio.NewReader(res.Body)
	for {
		line, err := reader.ReadBytes('\r')
		if err != nil {
			continue
		}
		var item struct {
			Text string `json:"text"`
		}
		json.Unmarshal(line, &item)
		log.Println(item.Text)
	}
}

add you username and password in line 11 to get this to work. Will display the time received and the text of every tweet that mentions the word "tumblr". The volume is quite amazing.

uses only the Go standard library, so the only requirement is that you have the language. After adding your username and password, you can run it with go run tumblr.go. Change the search term in line 13 if you'd like to search for something else.

(I don't know why the indentation is getting screwed up in line 4, even after I ran this through Go fmt; it seems like github is changing the whitespace)