Twitter Kafka Producer

This application streams real time tweets by any topic(s) using Twitter Hosebird Client that is build on kafka.

🔌 Requirements

• Java 8
• Maven
• Kafka

🔐 Initital Instructions

Clone this repository and install all dependencies.

# Install all dependencies using Maven
$ mvn install

• Create a Twitter app and generate the necessary secret keys.
• Include the generated keys in the Producer class.

💥 Run the Application

In order to send tweets to the producer we have to start Zookeeper and Kafka.

# Start Zookeeper
$ zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties

# Start Kafka
$ kafka-server-start.bat config\server.properties

# Create a topic
$ kafka-topics.bat --zookeeper 127.0.01:2181 --create --topic <YOUT TOPIC HERE> -partitions 6 --replication-factor 1

Now you can start the application.

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