Tweepository

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:

• 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'.