justkeyo / bigscreentweets

Big Screen Tweets

A simple to use tool to display tweets tweets in a format suitable for use at conferences. This provides a backend that acts as a proxy for some of the Twitter API.

This project replaces tweet-screen.

Current API Support

• GET Search/tweets
  • /twitter/search/tweets.json

Additional

• Tweet out QR code generator. Uses the Twitter Web Intents API
  • /qr.png

Front-End

Installation

In order to run Big Screen Tweets you need the following:

• Node
• A fork of this repository (if you plan to customize)
• Twitter OAuth details (this won't be the case for much longer)

Setup

Clone and install:

git clone [email protected]:[youruser]/BigScreenTweets.git
cd BigScreenTweets && npm install

Create configuration file:

cp env.sample .env

Next open .env in your prefered editor and set all values.

Finally run the app with:

node app