rstream

Create your own lifestream, take control of your data. Example: http://themattmueller.com

Requirements

• Ruby (tested with 1.8.7 and REE)
• Rails 3
• MySQL
• Cron (to poll for updates)

Assumptions

You use one or more of:

• Twitter
• Foursquare
• del.icio.us
• Flickr
• Google Reader

You know how to create an application/get an api key from sites requiring it, authorize your user account, and retrieve the various oauth tokens involved.

Setup

• Clone rstream and install gems using bundler:

  git clone git@github.com:mattmueller/rstream.git
   bundle install

• Copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml - modifying with your database credentials, migrate:

  rake db:migrate

• Copy config/settings.yml.example to config/settings.yml - fill out the various options (leave account credentials blank to ignore it)

• Run historic polling to go back in time and get as much data from services as possible (may take a while) from the console:

  DeliciousBookmark.get_historic_bookmarks
   FlickrPhoto.get_historic_photos
   FoursquareCheckin.get_historic_checkins
   GoogleReaderShare.get_historic_shares
   TwitterStatus.get_historic_statuses

• In your crontab, set entries for the services you want to poll and the intervals at which you want to poll them, in this case they are combined into a single bash file that is invoked every 5 minutes:

  #!/bin/bash
   cd /path/to/app/root
   RAILS_ENV=production script/rails runner "DeliciousBookmark.get_new_bookmarks"
   RAILS_ENV=production script/rails runner "FlickrPhoto.get_new_photos"
   RAILS_ENV=production script/rails runner "FoursquareCheckin.get_new_checkins"
   RAILS_ENV=production script/rails runner "GoogleReaderShare.get_new_shares"
   RAILS_ENV=production script/rails runner "TwitterStatus.get_new_statuses"

  */5 * * * * sh /path/to/above/script.sh

• Deploy: obviously if you want this available on the web you'll need to deploy it.

XML and JSON versions of your activities can be accessed at http://yoursite.com/feed.xml and http://yoursite.com/feed.json

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Setup your development environment with: gem install bundler; bundle install
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Send me a pull request.

License

MIT License - See LICENSE for more details.