thanks for the amazing module, i have noticed a small error when building a show which involves a twitter stream which could go from 1 tweet per hour to 500 per hour.
so when i start the stream and tweet using the correct stream term, a tweet will be received around 2-5 mins later, so this makes it a bit hard when we have a small group or one person trying to see there tweet as quick as possible.
i found if i tweet from the same account or another account straight after the first tweet i can push the first tweet up almost instantly.
im just a bit confused about how this occurs and would be grateful for any help possible
Our dev Matt pushed up an update. There’s a chunk size button. You can read more in the github readme but basically things were getting stuck in the buffer. Should be fixed now if you turn on the smaller chunk size toggle, or leave it on if you’re dealing with larger data sets.
I’ll be sure be sure to post up the end result when the build is finished.
We will be using this module on a show at vivid 2016 in Sydney.
So I can’t thank you enough for the awesome module
hi, many thx for making this available. i’ve been trying to integrate the ‘media_url’ into the script to get hold of images in tweets. i thought it would be as easy as adding the parameters to the list in the script like so:
me is this DAT.
frame is the current frame.
state is true if the timeline is paused.
Make sure the corresponding toggle is enabled in the Execute DAT.
def start():
return
def create():
return
def exit():
return
def frameStart(frame):
try:
# check queue for tweet
inQ = me.parent().fetch(‘streamInQ’)
value = inQ.get_nowait()
# prep json
import json
json_obj = json.loads(value)
# extract information from json
tweetText = json_obj['text']
tweetLanguage = json_obj['lang']
tweetTimestamp = json_obj['timestamp_ms']
tweetLocation = json_obj['coordinates']
tweetHashtags = []
for i in json_obj['entities']['hashtags']:
tweetHashtags.append(i['text'])
userFullName = json_obj['user']['name']
userScreenName = json_obj['user']['screen_name']
userLocation = json_obj['user']['location']
userLanguage = json_obj['user']['lang']
userProfileImage = json_obj['user']['profile_image_url']
[b]mediaPostImage = json_obj['media']['media_url'][/b]
#check tweet for double quotes, and replace with single
if '"' in tweetText :
tweetText = tweetText.replace('"', "'")
# write to table
op('tweetTable').appendRow([tweetText, tweetLanguage, tweetTimestamp, tweetLocation, tweetHashtags, userFullName, userScreenName, userLocation, userLanguage, userProfileImage, [b]mediaPostImage[/b]])
# write to console
mod.writeTo.console('New Tweet in stream from @' + userScreenName)
#make tweet dict
twitterDict = {}
twitterDict["tweetText"] = tweetText
twitterDict["tweetLanguage"] = tweetLanguage
twitterDict["tweetTimeStamp"] = tweetTimestamp
twitterDict["tweetLocation"] = tweetLocation
twitterDict["tweetHashtags"] = tweetHashtags
twitterDict["userFullName"] = userFullName
twitterDict["userScreenName"] = userScreenName
twitterDict["userLocation"] = userLocation
twitterDict["userLanguage"] = userLanguage
twitterDict["userProfileImage"] = userProfileImage
[b]twitterDict["mediaPostImage"] = mediaPostImage[/b]
#write to log
mod.writeTo.log("DEBUG", twitterDict)
except Exception as e:
# nothing new yet
pass
return
def frameEnd(frame):
return
def playState(state):
return
but this doesn’t work as i thought it would. is it possible to do this with your component ?
I am also getting an error when i save from time to time but not always:
You can ignore that pickling error, it wouldn’t stop any functionality, just throws the error when saving. Your project should still save regardless. Are you not seeing the media url in the table?
i’m not sure i’m changing things in the right places:
inside the /project1/nVoid_Twitter_Tools1/python
i have opened the
checkForStream execute DAT in textport and added the lines mentioned above in green, then closed the texport tab and saved the project.
i’ve also tried adding a mediaPostImage column to the tweetTable DAT
when i do that i don’t get an error but the tables are not receiving tweets anymore. i remove the added lines from the cript and media column from the tabes and it’s working again.
when i save and close the project and open it up again the script and table have reverted to their initial state and my changes are gone. The project is saving since i see the version count increase and other changes i make to the project stick.
i have also created a table with my authentication credential keys and linked the corresponding cells into the authentication parameters of the tox. this also doesn’t stick, when i save and open again the auth parameters are empty.
i’ve seen in the readme that only these tweet attributes are supported:
So i’m not sure if this can be done with this TOX, i thought it would be as easy as defining the additional parameter and column but it seems it’s more complex than that.
I can take a look at the additional field tomorrow, but if you’re filling in custom parameters, they should save with the project. If you change anything inside the TOX, you need to resave the TOX, which you can do by right clicking on it and clicking Save External Component (or something like that, I don’t remember the exact name) and saving over the existing TOX file. This will keep internal changes, but custom parameters you assign should save with the project.
Small note, often you’ll be using node storage for accessing things throughout the session of the toe, but you don’t actually want the value preserved when saving/loading.
In that case, use:
OP.storeStartupValue(name, value).
You can supply a dummy None value for example, instead of having TouchDesigner trying (and failing) to save and restore a very session specific object.
cstick - can you send me link to reference API docs about the media object? I tried finding it quickly but didn’t see the key you’re looking for. This would be a sample of the Twitter object returned for tweets:
