Chapter 325. Twitter Components

Available as of Camel version 2.10

The camel-twitter consists of 4 components:

The Twitter components enable the most useful features of the Twitter API by encapsulating Twitter4J. It allows direct, polling, or event-driven consumption of timelines, users, trends, and direct messages. Also, it supports producing messages as status updates or direct messages.

Twitter now requires the use of OAuth for all client application authentication. In order to use camel-twitter with your account, you’ll need to create a new application within Twitter at https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new and grant the application access to your account. Finally, generate your access token and secret.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-twitter</artifactId>
    <version>${camel-version}</version>
</dependency>

from("direct:foo")
  .to("twitter-timeline://user?consumerKey=[s]&consumerSecret=[s]&accessToken=[s]&accessTokenSecret=[s]);

from("twitter-timeline://home?type=polling&delay=60&consumerKey=[s]&consumerSecret=[s]&accessToken=[s]&accessTokenSecret=[s]")
  .to("bean:blah");

from("twitter-search://foo?type=polling&keywords=camel&consumerKey=[s]&consumerSecret=[s]&accessToken=[s]&accessTokenSecret=[s]")
  .to("bean:blah");

from("direct:foo")
  .to("twitter-search://foo?keywords=camel&consumerKey=[s]&consumerSecret=[s]&accessToken=[s]&accessTokenSecret=[s]");

from("direct:foo")
  .setHeader("CamelTwitterKeywords", header("bar"))
  .to("twitter-search://foo?consumerKey=[s]&consumerSecret=[s]&accessToken=[s]&accessTokenSecret=[s]");