Flask API for Twitter Client (https://github.com/jstefanska/twitter_client)

API created in Flask to use Python batch application for getting Tweets - https://github.com/jstefanska/twitter_client. API has Swagger UI, it's using Redis library to connect to Redis database.

Redis database and environment variables

First you need to create Redis database using e.g. Docker. Here you can find Dockerfile and Redis config with authorization password I used: https://github.com/jstefanska/flask_api/tree/master/Redis Then you need to create environment variables on your system, otherwise API won't work.

You need DB_PORT, DB_HOST and DB_PASS.

API

With this API, you can POST a hashtag with which you want to find Tweets, GET Tweets with the chosen hashtag and POST Tweet ID to vote for the Tweet you liked the most. E.g.:

• POST curl to add hashtag "doggo" for Windows

  curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{"value":"doggo"}" http://127.0.0.1:5000/hashtag

• GET curl with header to get tweets with hashtag "doggo" for Windows

  curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://127.0.0.1:5000/tweets/doggo

• POST curl to vote for Tweet with chosen ID

  curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{"value":"1234784584443"}" http://127.0.0.1:5000/vote

You can run it easily with Swagger UI - templates and static files for Swagger UI can be found in the project.

After POST request make sure https://github.com/jstefanska/twitter_client/tree/master runs. twitter_client and this Flask API are designed to run on Openshift, so you can run twitter_client as cron_job in Openshift: https://github.com/jstefanska/twitter_client/blob/master/Openshift/twitter-client-job-cron.yaml

Twitter client will always return 10 most recent Tweets with the hashtag of your choice.