Tweet archive search

Indexes your Twitter archive .zip file so you can search your tweets by keyword or phrase.

Requirements

• Your Twitter archive .zip file, download it from Twitter
• PostgreSQL 8.3 or greater (for full-text search support)

How to install

Just download the binary executable for your OS and execute it from the command line.

• Windows
• Linux
• Mac OS X

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How to run

By default, assumes you have a local PostgreSQL instance running on port 5432. Create a database named "tweetarchive".

$ createdb -E UTF8 tweetarchive

Run the web app:

$ ./tweetarchive

Index your Twitter archive

Go to /upload, click on the file button, selected your downloaded Twitter archive .zip file, and click Upload. Your archive will be indexed for full-text search.

Search your tweets

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:13331/ in your browser, type terms in to the box and hit enter to search your tweets!

Summary of command line options

• -dbname=<name>: name of the PostgreSQL database to store your tweets, default "tweetarchive"
• -dbhost=<host>: database hostname, default "localhost"
• -dbport=<port>: database port, default 5432
• -port=<port>: port of the web application, default 13331

Contributing

This app is written in Go for the server and uses AngularJS for the front-end. It has a bare-bones Bootstrap style. It needs a lot of help, check out the TODO file.

License

This work is copyright 2013 Paul Smith and is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, see LICENSE.