Reading votes from Twitter
In your $GOPATH/src
folder, alongside other projects, create a new folder called socialpoll
for this chapter. This folder won't be a Go package or a program by itself, but it will contain our three component programs. Inside socialpoll
, create a new folder called twittervotes
and add the obligatory main.go
template (this is important as main
packages without a main
function won't compile):
package main func main(){}
Our twittervotes
program is going to:
- Load all polls from the MongoDB database using
mgo
and collect all options from theoptions
array in each document - Open and maintain a connection to Twitter's streaming APIs looking for any mention of the options
- Figure out which option is mentioned and push that option through ...
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