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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Need help for a newbie to stream tweets with the Terminal Post 302895328 by MichaelGauthier on Monday 31st of March 2014 08:30:44 AM
Old 03-31-2014
Question Need help for a newbie to stream tweets with the Terminal

Hey everyone,


First, I'm not sure whether I should have posted this thread under the basic Unix commands forum or not, so I apologize if this was not the best place to do so...


Then, as the title of this discussion suggests, I would like to stream specific tweets for research purposes (I am a PhD student (interested in linguistics, not computing... -.-')), and I first started learning a few basic things with Python, but I realized that it could (apparently) be possible with just the Terminal (I'm on Mac OS) and a program like Twurl (if I'm not mistaken), so I gave up Python, but thus far I have just been able to connect to Twitter via the command line, by using my API key and secret, but now I'm stuck and I can't figure out how to make requests to stream specific tweets according to key words, or geo-localization.
I have been spending the last three weeks learning the basics of the command line so that I can better understand how it works, but I still can't find a relatively recent tutorial which would be clear enough and basic enough for a complete newbie in computing to understand how to do that, so I desperately need help now, since I am working on streaming tweets for a research project, and the deadlines are now becoming more and more pressing... So my questions are:


1) I can connect to Twitter with the Terminal and Twurl by using my API key and secret, what is the next step?
2) How to make requests to extract tweets from specific cities and with specific key words?
3) How to start streaming?


Please try to be clear (at least in newbies' terms...) since all the topics I found on the Internet apparently assume a certain knowledge of programming basics, which I don't have and it is quite frustrating not to be able to understand why the commands don't work, or what to do to make it work, hence my need for clear explanations...


I thank you in advance for any help you may bring! Any advice would be invaluable at this point. Don't hesitate to tell me if you need any more info.


Best

Last edited by MichaelGauthier; 03-31-2014 at 09:37 AM..
 

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UNLOCKED_STDIO(3)					     Linux Programmer's Manual						 UNLOCKED_STDIO(3)

NAME
*_unlocked - non-locking stdio functions SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h> int getc_unlocked(FILE *stream); int getchar_unlocked(void); int putc_unlocked(int c, FILE *stream); int putchar_unlocked(int c); #define _BSD_SOURCE /* or _SVID_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE */ #include <stdio.h> void clearerr_unlocked(FILE *stream); int feof_unlocked(FILE *stream); int ferror_unlocked(FILE *stream); int fileno_unlocked(FILE *stream); int fflush_unlocked(FILE *stream); int fgetc_unlocked(FILE *stream); int fputc_unlocked(int c, FILE *stream); size_t fread_unlocked(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t n, FILE *stream); size_t fwrite_unlocked(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t n, FILE *stream); #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> char *fgets_unlocked(char *s, int n, FILE *stream); int fputs_unlocked(const char *s, FILE *stream); #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <wchar.h> wint_t getwc_unlocked(FILE *stream); wint_t getwchar_unlocked(void); wint_t fgetwc_unlocked(FILE *stream); wint_t fputwc_unlocked(wchar_t wc, FILE *stream); wint_t putwc_unlocked(wchar_t wc, FILE *stream); wint_t putwchar_unlocked(wchar_t wc); wchar_t *fgetws_unlocked(wchar_t *ws, int n, FILE *stream); int fputws_unlocked(const wchar_t *ws, FILE *stream); DESCRIPTION
Each of these functions has the same behaviour as its counterpart without the `_unlocked' suffix, except that they do not use locking (they do not set locks themselves, and do not test for the presence of locks set by others) and hence are thread-unsafe. See flockfile(3). CONFORMING TO
The four functions getc_unlocked(), getchar_unlocked(), putc_unlocked(), putchar_unlocked() are in POSIX.1. The nonstandard *_unlocked() variants occur on a few Unix systems, and are available in recent glibc. They should probably not be used. SEE ALSO
flockfile(3) 2001-10-18 UNLOCKED_STDIO(3)
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