Pick a place on your file system that's easy to remember and reference with an absolution path.
Create a new empty folder there and export the path to a variables.
mkdir ~/streams export STREAMS=$(cd ~streams; pwd)
Next, create a configuration file to hold secrets for your streams to use.
cd $STREAMS touch reference.conf
To get started, put the following into reference.conf
twitter {
oauth {
consumerKey = ""
consumerSecret = ""
accessToken = ""
accessTokenSecret = ""
}
}
Visit developer.twitter.com and create an application to obtain the above fields.
The consumerKey and consumerSecret are application-wide.
The accessToken and accessTokenSecret are per-user. They can be obtained by navigating to:
https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=UIJ0AUxCJatpKDUyFt0OTSEP4asZgqxRwUCT0AMSwc&oauth_callback=http%3A%2F%2Foauth.streamstutorial.w2odata.com%3A8080%2Fsocialauthdemo%2FsocialAuthSuccessAction.do