FOSSASIA

loklak: Run loklak on your computer and harvest two million tweets

Objective

loklak is a twitter scraper and search server. Install loklak on your computer, follow the description on http://loklak.org/download.html, then run the server. It will start to harvest automatically and if you run it for 48 hours, it could have harvested two million tweets already. Make a screenshot of your welcome screen (http://localhost:9000) which prints out the harvested messages and tweet this to @loklak_app.

Requirements

  • Github account
  • Understanding of set up

Expected Outcome

  • The student should have set up the loklak server successfully on the system and tested it with a sample query
  • A set of screenshots for the localhost application running
  • at least 2 million tweets collected
  • tweet result on your twitter or any other social network with a screenshot and link to http://loklak.org, e.g. "Two million tweets collected with #p2psearch and #loklak http://loklak.org @fossasia #GCI"

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Students who completed this task

Ecyoj, Yekoss, Bancila Sorin, Poh Say Keong, Ronin, JLeow00, shiftsayan

Task type

  • chrome_reader_mode Documentation / Training
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2015