Twitter Stream Analysis

A Storm Topology to generate a list of popular words used in twitter. Data is ingested from either a storm spout or a kafka spout and processed downstream using Storm Bolts.

Requirements

• IDE
• Apache Maven 3.x
• JVM 6 or 7

General Info

The source folder is organized into 2 packages i.e. Kafka and Storm. Storm package has two topologies. The KafkaTwitterTopology using a Kafka spout and TwitterWordCountTopology using a Twitter Sample spout. Below is the list of classes:

• com/dhruvrp/Kafka
  • KafkaTwitterProducer.java -- A Kafka Producer that publishes twitter data to a kafka broker
• com/dhruvrp/Storm
  • TwitterWordCountTopology.java -- A topology which uses the TwitterSampleSpout to get the list of top words in twitter
  • KafkaTwitterTopology.java -- A topology which uses the KafkaSpout to get the list of top words in twitter
  • TwitterSampleSpout.java -- A spout which uses the twittet4j library to receive twitter data
  • StringWordSplitterBolt.java -- A bolt which receives tweets and emits its words which are over a certain length
  • IgnoreWordsBolt.java -- A bolt which filters out a predefined set of words
  • WordCounterBolt.java -- A bolt which calculates and prints list of popular words over a time interval
  • JsonWordSplitterBolt.java -- A bolt which receives tweets and emits its words which are over a certain length