robertglatzel / detweet

Contains the twitter app detweet

deTweet

deTweet is a twitter application that cleans your profile of unwanted tweets by filtering your tweets against a database of flagged words. We make it easy for you to review and remove problematic tweets with the click of a button.

deTweet is currently being rewritten to run on the MERN stack.

Login Page

Logged in

Displaying filtered tweets

Removing tweets

Developer Environment

Ubuntu 18.04

Installation instructions

The below instructions need to be reworked because they are unclear.

• Clone the repo
• cd into the directory
• ./install_mysql.sh (This installs pip3 and mysqlserver) (remember your root user's password)
• ./update_tables_databases.sh (This updates the databases and tables to support full unicode)
• python3 -m venv detweet_env (This creates a virtual environment)
• source detweet_env/bin/activate (Activates the virtual environment)
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Create an instance directory in the root level of the repository
• Add init.py and config.py into the directory.
• Set these as environmental variables in your shell: database_uri, twitter_api_key, twitter_api_secret, access_token, access_secret
• export FLASK_APP = detweet_app in the shell
• export FLASK_ENV = development (for debug mode)
• flask run
• check out the application on localhost:5000