Earlier we understood the integration of Kafka with Storm and Spark. Let us explore how to use it to get a real-time Twitter feed with hashtags using Twitter Streaming API.
First, you need to create a Twitter developer account to get the Twitter apps credentials. After you are done creating it, you will need a TwitterKafka Producer that can help -
- Read the Twitter feed and process it.
- Extract the hashtags.
- Send hashtags to Kafka.
Twitter Streaming API
You can access the Twitter Streaming API in any programming language. The open-source, Java-based module is known as ‘twitter4j’ which provides a listener-based framework to easily access tweets and Twitter Streaming API. For this process, we need to create a Twitter developer account.
After it is created, download the ‘twitter4j’ jar files and get these OAuth authentication details -
- Customerkey
- CustomerSecret
- AccessToken
- AccessTokenSecret
Here is the complete Twitter Kafka producer coding -
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import twitter4j.*;
import twitter4j.conf.*;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
public class KafkaTwitterProducer {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
LinkedBlockingQueue<Status> queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<Sta-tus>(1000);
if(args.length < 5){
System.out.println(
"Usage: KafkaTwitterProducer <twitter-consumer-key>
<twitter-consumer-secret> <twitter-access-token>
<twitter-access-token-secret>
<topic-name> <twitter-search-keywords>");
return;
}
String consumerKey = args[0].toString();
String consumerSecret = args[1].toString();
String accessToken = args[2].toString();
String accessTokenSecret = args[3].toString();
String topicName = args[4].toString();
String[] arguments = args.clone();
String[] keyWords = Arrays.copyOfRange(arguments, 5, arguments.length);
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true)
.setOAuthConsumerKey(consumerKey)
.setOAuthConsumerSecret(consumerSecret)
.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken)
.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(accessTokenSecret);
TwitterStream twitterStream = new TwitterStreamFactory(cb.build()).get-Instance();
StatusListener listener = new StatusListener() {
@Override
public void onStatus(Status status) {
queue.offer(status);
// System.out.println("@" + status.getUser().getScreenName()
+ " - " + status.getText());
// System.out.println("@" + status.getUser().getScreen-Name());
/*for(URLEntity urle : status.getURLEntities()) {
System.out.println(urle.getDisplayURL());
}*/
/*for(HashtagEntity hashtage : status.getHashtagEntities()) {
System.out.println(hashtage.getText());
}*/
}
@Override
public void onDeletionNotice(StatusDeletionNotice statusDeletion-Notice) {
// System.out.println("Got a status deletion notice id:"
+ statusDeletionNotice.getStatusId());
}
@Override
public void onTrackLimitationNotice(int numberOfLimitedStatuses) {
// System.out.println("Got track limitation notice:" +
num-berOfLimitedStatuses);
}
@Override
public void onScrubGeo(long userId, long upToStatusId) {
// System.out.println("Got scrub_geo event userId:" + userId +
"upToStatusId:" + upToStatusId);
}
@Override
public void onStallWarning(StallWarning warning) {
// System.out.println("Got stall warning:" + warning);
}
@Override
public void onException(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
};
twitterStream.addListener(listener);
FilterQuery query = new FilterQuery().track(keyWords);
twitterStream.filter(query);
Thread.sleep(5000);
//Add Kafka producer config settings
Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092");
props.put("acks", "all");
props.put("retries", 0);
props.put("batch.size", 16384);
props.put("linger.ms", 1);
props.put("buffer.memory", 33554432);
props.put("key.serializer",
"org.apache.kafka.common.serializa-tion.StringSerializer");
props.put("value.serializer",
"org.apache.kafka.common.serializa-tion.StringSerializer");
Producer<String, String> producer = new KafkaProducer<String, String>(props);
int i = 0;
int j = 0;
while(i < 10) {
Status ret = queue.poll();
if (ret == null) {
Thread.sleep(100);
i++;
}else {
for(HashtagEntity hashtage : ret.getHashtagEntities()) {
System.out.println("Hashtag: " + hashtage.getText());
producer.send(new ProducerRecord<String, String>(
top-icName, Integer.toString(j++), hashtage.getText()));
}
}
}
producer.close();
Thread.sleep(5000);
twitterStream.shutdown();
}
}
After creating the Twitter Kafka Producer, you can send tweets to Kafka. Simply run the Twitter Kafka Producer - Right-click KafkaTwitterProducer.java > Run configurations > Arguments.
Then add Twitter oAuth tokens and Kafka topic as shown below -
java -cp “/path/to/kafka/libs/*”:”/path/to/twitter4j/lib/*”:
. KafkaTwitterProducer <twitter-consumer-key>
<twitter-consumer-secret>
<twitter-access-token>
<twitter-ac-cess-token-secret>
my-first-topic games
The output will depend on the Twitter feed at that time and the keywords. Sample output is shown here -
. . .
games: 1
gaming: 2
gameinsights : 1
. . .
