tliakos / insights-search

Insights Search provides a search interface for the IBM Insights for Twitter service.

Insights Search Overview

Insights Search provides a search interface for the IBM Insights for Twitter service.

Running the app on Bluemix

1. Create a Bluemix Account

   Sign up for Bluemix, or use an existing account.

2. Download and install the Cloud-foundry CLI tool

3. Clone the app to your local environment from your terminal using the following command

git clone https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/insights-search.git

4. cd into this newly created directory

5. Edit the manifest.yml file and change the <application-name> and <application-host> from insights-search to something unique.

   applications:
   - services:
     - insights-search-twitter
     name: insights-search
     host: insights-search
     path: .
     memory: 256M
   

The host you use will determinate your application url initially, e.g. <application-host>.mybluemix.net.

6. Connect to Bluemix in the command line tool and follow the prompts to log in.

   $ cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
   $ cf login
   

7. Create the Insights for Twitter service in Bluemix.

$ cf create-service twitterinsights Free insights-search-twitter

8. Push the application to Bluemix.

$ cf push

And voila! You now have your very own instance of Insights Search running on Bluemix. Navigate to the application url, e.g. <application-host>.mybluemix.net and start querying Twitter.

Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot your Bluemix app the main useful source of information is the logs. To see them, run:

$ cf logs <application-name> --recent

Built with

• node.js
• express
• angularJS MIT
• angular-numeraljs MIT
• angular-clipboard MIT
• angular-socialshare MIT
• angular-ui-notification MIT
• JSURL MIT
• livestamp.js MIT
• google-code-prettify
• Twitter Bootstrap MIT
• bootstrap-datepicker Apache 2.0
• jQuery-QueryBuilder MIT
• momentjs MIT
• Twitter oEmbed

Privacy Notice

This application includes code to track deployments to IBM Bluemix and other Cloud Foundry platforms. The following information is sent to a Deployment Tracker service on each deployment:

• Application Name (application_name)
• Space ID (space_id)
• Application Version (application_version)
• Application URIs (application_uris)

This data is collected from the VCAP_APPLICATION environment variable in IBM Bluemix and other Cloud Foundry platforms. This data is used by IBM to track metrics around deployments of sample applications to IBM Bluemix. Only deployments of sample applications that include code to ping the Deployment Tracker service will be tracked.

Disabling Deployment Tracking

Deployment tracking can be disabled by removing require("cf-deployment-tracker-client").track(); from the beginning of the app.js file.

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Insights Search is a sample application created for the purpose of demonstrating the use of the Insights for Twitter service application. The program is provided as-is with no warranties of any kind, express or implied.