Twitter Stream Recorder saves the output from a stream to disk, creating a new file every hour. By default, Twitter Stream Recorded creates GZIP compressed files, with one Tweet in JSON format per line.
Twitter Stream Recorder can be installed using a number of methods.
The easiest method is to simply run main.go using the go run command:
go run main.go
To build the application binary, go build can be used and will generate
the binary in your current directory.
go build mirgit.dcs.gla.ac.uk/JamesMcMinn/twitter-stream-recorder
The stream recorded has a number of parameters, all of which are optional depending on your setup.
-compress=true Perform gzip compression before writing to disk.
-dir="./" Path to store downloaded tweets.
-host="localhost" The hostname to dial to.
-port=8053 Port to dial on.
The following example connects to a machine called juvented on a non-default port, specifies a directory to store the tweets and enables compression.
twitter-stream-recorder -host=juventud -port=56874 -dir=/local/jjnas01/Public/Commonwealth -compress=true
To following disables compression and writes files to the current directory:
twitter-stream-recorder -host=juventud -port=56874 -dir=./ -compress=false