jimlynchcodes / random-tweeter

Expels large quantities of Twitter tweets.

Random Tweeter

Randomly tweets a Twitter tweet from a pool of potential tweets.

Usage

Switch to node vX.X

nvm use

Packaged As A Lambda Function

This project uses the serverless project template, so the project is build to be dployed as a lambda function. However, you can still just always run it locally if you wish.

To Run Locally, Simulating A Deployed Lambda Running

sls offline start

Then you can call the endpoint at http://localhost:8000/tweet

To Run Locally Once And Then Exit The Process

sls invoke

Twitter Credentials

When you POST to the send tweet endpoint, send in your Twitter credentials like this:

{   
  "creds": {     
    "consumer_key": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",     
    "consumer_secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",     
    "access_token": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",     
    "access_token_secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"   
  } 
}

Configuring The Tweet Pool

The "tweetpool.json" file can be modified to change the content of the tweets in the tweet pool.

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Uses Serverless AWS Clojurescript Gradle Template

This project compiles Clojurescript to a NodeJS module using the Gradle Clojure Plugin.

NodeJS Support

Rudimentary support for loading/using NodeJS modules is provided.

See functions.cljs as an example.

To include NodeJS dependencies, modify build.gradle and add the module to the closurescript .. npmDeps section.

Prerequisites

• Create an Amazon Web Services account
• Install and set-up Serverless Framework CLI
• Install Java 8
• Install NPM
• Install Clojure
• Install Gradle

Build and Deploy

• To build, run ./gradlew clean build
• To deploy, run serverless deploy

Using the Repl in IntelliJ Cursive IDE

This project contains a script the must be initialized in order to use the Repl in IntelliJ.

From Scratch Guide

If you would like to recreate this project from scratch you can follow the below documented steps.

This project was scaffodled with the serverless aws-clojurescript-gradle template!

sls create --template aws-clojurescript-gradle

Installed "twit" javascript twitter library

npm i twit

Added "serverless-offline" as a plugin in serverless.yml:

plugins:
  - serverless-offline

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