This is a basic proof-of-principal Django app that utilizes Twitter's Streaming API for streaming and parsing/polling realtime data from Twitter.

You can search by hashtags in the frontend and then monitor in Terminal the stream as it pulls relevant content:

Setup:

$ virtualenv ENV

$ source ENV/bin/activate

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Include your Twitter app credentials in twitter_poller/twitter_streaming_API.py and twitter_poller/poller.py

Include the URL of your Heroku app in ALLOWED_HOSTS in twitterpollersite/settings.py

Heroku deploy notes:

After initial attempts to push git repo, it was failing during collectstatic. Turns out, because I had no static directory inside the project package (because all static files are in the pollerapp app package). Even after creating an empty static directory, still no dice, because git won't push empty directories. So cd inside static and created a file called .keep, which did the trick.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36665889/collectstatic-error-while-deploying-django-app-to-heroku

MONITORING:

For local requests monitoring for deployed app, in the git-heroku project run $ heroku logs --tail