Real-time Twitter to MQTT streamer. (Thanks to Peter v. Dijk for making me do this :-)

conf.ig

consumer_key            = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
consumer_secret         = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
token                   = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
token_secret            = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

output-example.txt

tw/jpmens {"url": "http://twitter.com/jpmens/status/392602935735365632", "date": "Tue Oct 22 10:46:48 +0000 2013", "fullname": "Jan-Piet Mens", "text": "NSEC explained #dnssec  http://t.co/nJRH5P6Ugc"}

twstream2mqtt.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from twython import TwythonStreamer # https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython
import mosquitto
import socket
import time
try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json
import sys

mqttc = mosquitto.Mosquitto(clean_session=True)

def on_connect(mosq, userdata, rc):
    print "Connected to broker"

def on_disconnect(mosq, userdata, rc):
    while True:
        print "Disconnected from broker; retrying.."
        time.sleep(10)
        try:
            rc = mosq.reconnect()
            if rc == 0:
                break
        except:
            pass

    print "Reconnected to broker."


config = {}
execfile('conf.ig', config)

class MyStreamer(TwythonStreamer):
    def on_success(self, data):
        if 'text' in data:
            try:
                text = data['text'].encode('utf-8')
                screen_name = data['user']['screen_name'].encode('utf-8')
                fullname = data['user']['name'].encode('utf-8')
                date = data['created_at']
                id_str = data['id_str']
                url = 'http://twitter.com/%s/status/%s' % (screen_name, id_str)

                payload = json.dumps(dict(
                    fullname = fullname,
                    text = text,
                    date = date,
                    url = url
                ))


                print payload
                mqttc.publish('tw/%s' % (screen_name), payload, qos=0, retain=False)
            except:
                raise


    def on_error(self, status_code, data):
        print status_code, data
        self.disconnect()

# Delays will be: 3, 6, 12, 24, 30, 30, ...
mqttc.reconnect_delay_set(delay=3, delay_max=30, exponential_backoff=True)
mqttc.on_connect = on_connect
mqttc.on_disconnect = on_disconnect

try:
    mqttc.connect("localhost", 1883, 60)
except Exception, e:
    sys.exit("Cannot connect to broker: %s" % (str(e)))

mqttc.loop_start()

# Requires Authentication as of Twitter API v1.1
stream = MyStreamer(config['consumer_key'], config['consumer_secret'],
                    config['token'], config['token_secret'])

try:
    stream.statuses.filter(track=['#dns', 'dnssec', 'ansible', 'powerdns'])
    # stream.user() # myself (i.e. authenticated user)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    mqttc.loop_stop()
    sys.exit(0)