Searchiscope

Latest tweets from anywhere in the world!

Radius is 10 km, up to 15 tweets are shown, search is 6-7 days deep.

Built with Elm, Go, Google Maps API, Twitter Search API.

How to start your own instance

• Install Elm and Google App Engine SDK for Go.

• Create a Twitter app, obtain its API consumer key and secret, and put them in config/twitter_credentials.json in this format:

  {
    "key": "0123456789ABCDEF",
    "secret": "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF"
  }
  

• Create a Google AppEngine project, obtain its ID, and put it in app.yaml under application: key.

• Compile Elm code to elm.js with elm-make:

  $ pushd elm && elm-make TwitterSearch.elm --output ../js/elm.js && popd
  

• Then, start a local instance:

  $ goapp serve
  

• Or deploy to Google App Engine:

  $ goapp deploy
  

License

• MIT License

TODO

• Configurable radius
• Permalinks
• Display local timezone instead of UTC