Using the Twitter river

In the previous recipes, we have seen rivers that fetch data from data stores, both SQL and NoSQL. In this recipe, we'll discuss how to use the Twitter river to collect tweets from Twitter and store them in ElasticSearch.

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch and OAuth Twitter token. To obtain it, you need to log in to Twitter (https://dev.twitter.com/apps/) and create a new app at https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new.

How to do it...

For using the Twitter river, we need to perform the following steps:

1. Firstly, we need to install the Twitter river plugin, which is available on Github (https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter). We can install the river plugin in the usual way as follows:

   bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter/1.4.0

2. The result should be as follows:

   -> Installing elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter/1.4.0...
   Trying http://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-twitter/elasticsearch...