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twitter

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Read events from the twitter streaming api.

Synopsis

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This plugin supports the following configuration options:

Required configuration options:

twitter {
    consumer_key => ...
    consumer_secret => ...
    keywords => ...
    oauth_token => ...
    oauth_token_secret => ...
}

Available configuration options:

Setting	Input type	Required	Default value
`add_field`	hash	No	`{}`
`codec`	codec	No	`"plain"`
`consumer_key`	string	Yes
`consumer_secret`	password	Yes
`full_tweet`	boolean	No	`false`
`keywords`	array	Yes
`oauth_token`	string	Yes
`oauth_token_secret`	password	Yes
`tags`	array	No
`type`	string	No

Details

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`add_field`

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Value type is hash
Default value is {}

Add a field to an event

`codec`

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Value type is codec
Default value is "plain"

The codec used for input data. Input codecs are a convenient method for decoding your data before it enters the input, without needing a separate filter in your Logstash pipeline.

`consumer_key`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is string
There is no default value for this setting.

Your twitter app’s consumer key

Don’t know what this is? You need to create an "application" on twitter, see this url: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

`consumer_secret`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is password
There is no default value for this setting.

Your twitter app’s consumer secret

If you don’t have one of these, you can create one by registering a new application with twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new

`full_tweet`

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Value type is boolean
Default value is false

Record full tweet object as given to us by the Twitter stream api.

`keywords`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is array
There is no default value for this setting.

Any keywords to track in the twitter stream

`oauth_token`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is string
There is no default value for this setting.

Your oauth token.

To get this, login to twitter with whatever account you want, then visit https://dev.twitter.com/apps

Click on your app (used with the consumer_key and consumer_secret settings) Then at the bottom of the page, click Create my access token which will create an oauth token and secret bound to your account and that application.

`oauth_token_secret`

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This is a required setting.
Value type is password
There is no default value for this setting.

Your oauth token secret.

To get this, login to twitter with whatever account you want, then visit https://dev.twitter.com/apps

`tags`

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Value type is array
There is no default value for this setting.

Add any number of arbitrary tags to your event.

This can help with processing later.

`type`

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Value type is string
There is no default value for this setting.

Add a type field to all events handled by this input.

Types are used mainly for filter activation.

The type is stored as part of the event itself, so you can also use the type to search for it in Kibana.

If you try to set a type on an event that already has one (for example when you send an event from a shipper to an indexer) then a new input will not override the existing type. A type set at the shipper stays with that event for its life even when sent to another Logstash server.

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