Thanks for posting this project. I have used the foundation to create two variants on the concept. Build page links include source code, etc.

http://whiskeytangohotel.com/rgb Pretty basic. It looks for a color to be mentioned on Twitter then displays that color on a RGB LED.

http://whiskeytangohotel.com/hashvote Little more difficult. This program tracks two Twitter terms and graphs how often the terms are mentioned.

Thanks again, Sparkfun; for posting up the original project!

Can i ask a second question please? My "Raspberry Pi Twitter Monitor" is working ok, except when the Raspberry pi Zero W (with the configuration LED=22 and the reboot 'pi_code.py') is on for more then 3 houres, then if i test it , it gives no signal anymore to the led. At the first houre, it is working perfectly....Am i doing something wrong?.... What can i do about this please? grts from Guido m Belgium I am using a Raspberry pi Zero W .

ps: i forgot to tell you thanks for this beautiful project

I did make the project "Raspberry Pi Twitter Monitor" and it is working perfectly...... Now i want to use some sound when someone is tweeting me (play a sound.mp3). I have bought the "Speaker pHat" and installed on my Raspberry pi Zero W: and it is working also... (i can play the 'sound.mp3' with the command in the terminal : cvlc sound.mp3).

Now i must , i think , change the 'TwinkBlinky.py' for starting the 'sound.mp3' one time. I have searched all around and did not found the solution. So i gave it up and my last hope for help is you.... Please, can you help me with that? Guido M Belgium

So I am trying to do this - copied the code and put in my auth tokens etc -- it will not blink or pick up the TERMS=# Does this only work when someone I am following does one of these hashtags? I want it to blink when I hashtag something - im using it for like a remote notification for someone when I am gone I can hash tag them and the light blinks..

Help and or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks -Rick

Confused: I was under the impression that GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) means you use the numbers printed on the board, yet the diagram shows the LED hooked up to Pin 25 and the code reads LED = 22

Researching this made me feel that the tutorial was using BCM numbering where pin 22 on the board is actually GPIO 25 in the code

I'm using a Pi 2 in this case.
The tutorial works but I was expecting the PINS to match the board due to the use of GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) in the code Confused?

Hi

I am attempting to adapt the code provided in this article to search for multiple hashtags which then activate different LEDs. E.g. if #lol is tweeted, LED1 lights; if #yes is tweeted, LED2 lights, etc.

I am a Python newbie and have the following code adapted from the article. At present on the first term ('#yes') in the code returns any tweets. Could you please advise on the best way of achieving this?

import time
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from twython import TwythonStreamer

# Search terms
TERMS1 = '#yes'
TERMS2 = '#lol'

# GPIO pin number of LED

LED1 = 22
LED2 = 32

# Twitter application authentication

APP_KEY = ''
APP_SECRET = ''
OAUTH_TOKEN = ''
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

# Setup callbacks from Twython Streamer

class BlinkyStreamer(TwythonStreamer):
        def on_success(self, data):
            if 'text' in data:
            print data['text'].encode('utf-8')
            print
            GPIO.output(LED1, GPIO.HIGH)
           time.sleep(0.5)
            GPIO.output(LED1, GPIO.LOW)

class BlinkyStreamer2(TwythonStreamer):
    def on_success(self, data):
        if 'text' in data:
        print data['text'].encode('utf-8')
        print
        GPIO.output(LED2, GPIO.HIGH)
        time.sleep(0.5)
        GPIO.output(LED2, GPIO.LOW)

# Setup GPIO as output

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD)
GPIO.setup(LED1, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LED1, GPIO.LOW)
GPIO.setup(LED2, GPIO.OUT)
GPIO.output(LED2, GPIO.LOW)

# Create streamer

try:
    stream1 = BlinkyStreamer(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)
    stream1.statuses.filter(track=TERMS1)

    stream2 = BlinkyStreamer2(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)
    stream2.statuses.filter(track=TERMS2)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    GPIO.cleanup()

This may be far too late, but to anyone trying to get to the twitter developer page to make the app...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=twitter+developer+create+app

Hi. I got the first part of my problem solved. There were a few things which I was doing wrong. Firstly, the resistor was too strong for my LED. Changed it to 50 ohms. Secondly, updated the RPi GPIO library. Worked like a charm.

Now trying to figure how to customize this as a personal timeline hashtag based blink.

Has anyone received the following error message? Any suggestions on a fix? The program runs fine for several minutes and then I receive the following:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/pi/TweetBlinky/TweetBlinky.py", line 27, in <module> stream.statuses.filter(track=TERMS) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/twython/streaming/types.py", line 65, in filter self.streamer._request(url, 'POST', params=params) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/twython/streaming/api.py", line 141, in _request for line in response.iter_lines(self.chunk_size): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 715, in iter_lines for chunk in self.iter_content(chunk_size=chunk_size, decode_unicode=decode_unicode): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 673, in generate for chunk in self.raw.stream(chunk_size, decode_content=True): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py", line 303, in stream for line in self.read_chunked(amt, decode_content=decode_content): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py", line 450, in read_chunked chunk = self._handle_chunk(amt) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py", line 411, in _handle_chunk value = self._fp._safe_read(amt) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/http/client.py", line 592, in _safe_read raise IncompleteRead(b''.join(s), amt) http.client.IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(0 bytes read, 1 more expected)

Two questions; odds are at least one is a dumb one.

Does "TERMS" have to be a hashtag, or can "stream.statuses.filter" track for any text?

I take it that in the line "if 'text' in data", 'text' is one part of the "data" array, so it should say "'text'" and not "'whatyouwanttosearchfor'". Can someone point me to documentation on what all is in "data"?

TIA

tried using code but python said the third "data" right after "print" and before "['text']" was invalid syntax. does anyone know what is wrong or something else i need to download or update on my pi.

For some reason, my monitor will not show tweets that are sent from mobile apps. Can anyone help me figure this out? Thanks!

Hello,

I just copy /past the code , addapted the APIkey, Auth key... But nothing appears. No error message.

While I tried the bellow SendMessage worked. :=> API keys and tweeter account are OK

Any Idea?

Lol is indeed very common !

I needed sudo pip install -U distribute==0.6.45

before sudo pip install Adafruit_BBIO

While installing * pip install Adafruit_BBIO*

I get this error message: InstallationError: Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 2 in /home/pi/build/Adafruit-BBIO

second try

from twython import Twython 
APP_KEY = “xxxx” 
APP_SECRET = “xxxxx”
OAUTH_TOKEN = ‘xxxx’ 
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = ‘xxxxx’

#startTime = datetime.now()

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)

#Sends a private message
twitter.send_direct_message(user_id=“FromUserNo@”, screen_name=“FromUserNo@”, text= ‘ bonjour ’)

#sends a public message
twitter.update_status(status=“Ca marche! :D”)

print (“DM SENT IN”)
#print (datetime.now()-startTime)

here just a small code to make the opposit using the same Twython. Has to be improved to link it to the Gpio: Once the gpio gets an input: sends a tweet:

from twython import Twython
APP_KEY = "xxxx"
APP_SECRET = "xxxxx"


OAUTH_TOKEN = 'xxxx'
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = 'xxxxx'
#startTime = datetime.now()

twitter = Twython(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)

#Sends a private message
twitter.send_direct_message(user_id="FromUserNo@", screen_name="FromUserNo@", text= ' bonjour ')

#sends a public message
twitter.update_status(status="Ca marche! :D")

print ("DM SENT IN")
#print (datetime.now()-startTime)

P.S. Sorry for the layout of this comment.

A big thanks anyhow..

I had to add

sudo pip install rpi.gpio

And there is a small error between thje code Led pin and the schema (Pin 22 vs 25)..

Thanks for the explanation. I understand. I will have to look closer at the code you linked to, the tweeting game, that might help me... in the mean time I will experiment with: terms = ['#rasberrypi', '#Helpful', '@ShawnHymel']

Thanks again for your help... :)

cheers.

Thank you Shawn,

So I should be able to use the following?: terms = [‘#omg OR #hello OR #diy’]

Would that be the correct syntax? As a result, any tweets that contain any one of the above three words would be displayed?

Would the following also work?: terms = ['#omg AND #hello AND #diy'] Would this display tweets that only include those three words?

I'm at the office and cannot test, but i hope it's that simple :)

Cool project... I'm hoping to expand on it, but I'm very new to Python...

in the line: TERMS = '#lol' in the dissecting code, it says TERMS holds a string (or Strings)

how would i change it if I wanted to search for more than one Term? for instance, say I want to find tweets to @RobFord that also say "drunk" how would i change that line? The above example is just for fun, but should help with my project...

I'm hoping to either increment a counter, if Drunk is used, increment another counter if Drugs is used. then either adjust the brightness or the color of an rgb led.... i tried a couple of things like TERMS = '#lol' AND '#Haha" but nothing came of it...

help? :)

Oh, and here's what I had to do to get it working:

apt-get update
apt-get install python-pip
apt-get install python-dev
pip install twython
pip install Adafruit_BBIO

Shawn, what a fun project. Yesterday I got it working on a BeagleBone Black.

--Mark

Works great, except I thought I was getting duplicate tweets, so I added printing the screen_name from the tweet. Turns out it was not duplicate tweets, but re-tweets.

I got nothing when running it... ;-(

On the "Required Components" page, you forgot the led.

Nothing happens when I run the command: sudo python TweetBlinky.py

My Pi just sits and thinks...until I kill it w/ ctrl+c. Nothing prints to the terminal. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Shawn. Thank you for this project. I am using a RasPi B+ and with the 40 pin breakout board to connect to the breadboard using the bus cable. I have connected 3.3V pin and the GND pin to the LED using 390 ohm resistor. I do get the tweets with the hashtag on my console bu the LED doesn't blink. I have double checked the circuit and it looks fine to me. Do you have any suggestions?

Also, how do I modify the code wherein I receive the tweets only sent to my timeline and not universal tweets with the hashtag ? i.e. if someone tweets me with the hashtag it should appear on my timeline and the LED should blink.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers!