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== Using ==
  
To create a new tweetstream, click on 'Manage Records', and then on
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To create a new tweetstream, click on 'Manage Records', then on 'Twitter Feed', and then on the 'Create new Item' button.  A new tweetstream object will be created, and you will need to enter two parameters:
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[[File:tweepository_create.png]]
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* Search String: Passed directly to Twitter as the search parameter.
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* Expiry Date: The date on which to stop harvesting this stream.
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Once these fields have been completed, click 'Save and Return'.
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== Harvesting ==

Revision as of 20:18, 3 November 2011


The Tweepository plugin enables the repository to harvest a stream of tweets from a twitter search.

Installation Prerequisites

The following perl libraries must be installed on the server before the Bazaar package will function.

Date::Calc
Date::Parse
Encode
HTML::Entities
JSON
LWP::UserAgent
URI
URI::Find

Installation

Install through the EPrints Bazaar

Using

To create a new tweetstream, click on 'Manage Records', then on 'Twitter Feed', and then on the 'Create new Item' button. A new tweetstream object will be created, and you will need to enter two parameters:

Tweepository create.png

  • Search String: Passed directly to Twitter as the search parameter.
  • Expiry Date: The date on which to stop harvesting this stream.

Once these fields have been completed, click 'Save and Return'.

Harvesting