The point of this project is to create an app for twitter in racket.
It will use a GUI and the oauth-single-user library created by [Stephen Charles] (https://github.com/StephenCharles/Racket-OAuth1.0a) to allow the user to enter their Consumer Key (API Key) the consumer Secret, the Access Token, and the Secret Access token to create a tweet bot that is implemented in Racket. These alpha-numeric keys/tokens provided via [Twitter's Dev Site] (https://apps.twitter.com/) when you create a twitter app.
We will be using Map, filter, and reduce to parse the data we recieve from the twitter server. I will also be using data abstraction to protect the password.
If you will be working with existing data, where will you get those data from? (Dowload it from a website? access it in a database? create it in a simulation you will build....)
How will you convert that data into a form usable for your project?
Do your homework here: if you are pulling data from somewhere, actually go download it and look at it. Explain in some detail what your plan is for accomplishing the necessary processing.
If you are using some other starting materails, explain what they are. Basically: anything you plan to use that isn't code.
By the end of this project we want to be able to demo an app that allows the user to connect to their twitter acount, look up specific hashtags, and tweet/retweet. For the live demo we could log into an acount and tweet something. We can then prove it worked by showing the tweet on the twitter website.
What exactly will you produce at the end of the project? A piece of software, yes, but what will it do? Here are some questions to think about (and answer depending on your application).
Will it run on some data, like batch mode? Will you present some analytical results of the processing? How can it be re-run on different source data?
Will it be interactive? Can you show it working? This project involves a live demo, so interactivity is good.
How will you know if you are successful? A brief expectation of our results would be that user is able to post a tweet to their account and then go and view that tweet on another brower or application. For quantitative search results we will be comparing our results of a hashtag search to that of a hashtag search on twitter's website.
The diagram shows that the user will input their data which will then be sent to the twitter data base throught racket making use of the OAuth racket Library. Then we will make api calls in racket using
procedure
(post-pure-port URL post [header]) → input-port?
URL : url?
post : bytes?
header : (listof string?) = null
and then when the data is sent back from twitter we will need to parse it as it will be returned in the JSON format. Here we will need to use the JSON racket library. After Parsing the data, it will be displayed to the user in the gui.
- Nick created a Twitter application via twitter's website for authentification credentials to be used by RacketTwitter.
The basic GUI should be set up for testing and allow the user to give their username and password.
The GUI will allow the user to login to twitter and make a basic post. I also want the password to be hidden when it is typed in.
By this time the GUI should be cleaned up and should allow the user to search for specific hashtags and retweet.
Here each group member gets a section where they, as an individual, detail what they are responsible for in this project. Each group member writes their own Responsibility section. Include the milestones and final deliverable.
I will be working on the GUI portion of the project. I hope by the first milestone to have a basic gui with a login screen that will take a username and password. By the second milestone I want to have the gui allowing the user to login with their password being hidden when typed and I would like the user to be able to post tweets. By the final milestone I would like to have the gui set up for the search and retweet functions. I would also want to clean it up and make it look nice by this point.
Nick will be working on the backend of the project. This includes working with the OAuth Racket library as well as creating a new twitter app to obtain the access tokens needed to communicate with the database. This library allows us to securely connect to twitter and query the data base for tweets as well as post them. For the first milestone, I hope to have a working login screen that will accept the user's account name and password and successfully log them in. Second milestone will be that the user is able to post a tweet. The Final milestone is that the user can seach a hashtag and have the results returned to the gui. Twitter will return all query's in JSON format so I will also need to be implementing a JSON parser to make the ouput readable for the common user.