https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/App-for-Twitter-Data-How-to-change-the-api-call-to-add-URL/m-p/190842#M19519 <P>I downloaded the App for Twitter Data. As of now, the script stream_tweets.py is feeding live twitter data into my Splunk instance. What do I edit in order to filter the stream and index only the tweets that contain certain words or hashtags? Basically, I want to add an API request parameter. Please help!</P> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:06:36 GMT nileena 2015-01-23T11:06:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/App-for-Twitter-Data-How-to-change-the-api-call-to-add-URL/m-p/190842#M19519 <P>I downloaded the App for Twitter Data. As of now, the script stream_tweets.py is feeding live twitter data into my Splunk instance. What do I edit in order to filter the stream and index only the tweets that contain certain words or hashtags? Basically, I want to add an API request parameter. Please help!</P> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:06:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/App-for-Twitter-Data-How-to-change-the-api-call-to-add-URL/m-p/190842#M19519 nileena 2015-01-23T11:06:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/App-for-Twitter-Data-How-to-change-the-api-call-to-add-URL/m-p/190843#M19520 <UL> <LI>Locate the API call to Twitter in stream_tweets.py. Determine the API URL it is hitting.</LI> <LI>Locate the docs for that API URL in Twitter's API docs.</LI> <LI>Look for a parameter or similar to that API that performs the filtering you want.</LI> <LI>Alter stream_tweets.py to make the API call with the altered parameters.</LI> <LI>Test it.</LI> </UL> Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:51:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/App-for-Twitter-Data-How-to-change-the-api-call-to-add-URL/m-p/190843#M19520 davidfstr 2015-01-23T18:51:55Z