Twitter Firehose source connector
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The Twitter Firehose source connector receives tweets from Twitter Firehose and writes the tweets to Pulsar topics.
Configuration
The configuration of the Twitter Firehose source connector has the following properties.
Property
| Name | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
consumerKey | String | true | " " (empty string) | The twitter OAuth consumer key. For more information, see Access tokens. |
consumerSecret | String | true | " " (empty string) | The twitter OAuth consumer secret. |
token | String | true | " " (empty string) | The twitter OAuth token. |
tokenSecret | String | true | " " (empty string) | The twitter OAuth secret. |
guestimateTweetTime | Boolean | false | false | Most firehose events have null createdAt time. If guestimateTweetTime set to true, the connector estimates the createdTime of each firehose event to be current time. |
clientName | String | false | openconnector-twitter-source | The twitter firehose client name. |
clientHosts | String | false | Constants.STREAM_HOST | The twitter firehose hosts to which client connects. |
clientBufferSize | int | false | 50000 | The buffer size for buffering tweets fetched from twitter firehose. |
For more information about OAuth credentials, see Twitter developers portal.