Search Twitter for Tweets
Updated: Aug 28, 2026
package com.northconcepts.datapipeline.examples.cookbook;
import java.io.File;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.DataEndpoint;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.DataReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.DataWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.MultiWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.StreamWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.excel.ExcelDocument;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.excel.ExcelWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.job.Job;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.BasicFieldTransformer;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.CopyField;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.MoveFieldAfter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.TransformingReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.twitter.ApiLimitPolicy;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.twitter.TwitterSearchReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.logger.Logger;
public class SearchTwitterForTweets {
public static final Logger log = DataEndpoint.log;
private static final String QUERY = "#Java";
private static final int MAX_RESULTS = 500;
private static final String CONSUMER_KEY = "*********"; // Your Twitter API Consumer Key
private static final String CONSUMER_SECRET = "***********"; // Your Twitter API Consumer Secret
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Read from Twitter
DataReader reader = new TwitterSearchReader(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, QUERY, MAX_RESULTS)
.setApiLimitPolicy(ApiLimitPolicy.STOP);
// Split CreatedAt into CreatedAtDate and CreatedAtTime
reader = new TransformingReader(reader)
.add(new CopyField("CreatedAt", "CreatedAtDate", false))
.add(new CopyField("CreatedAt", "CreatedAtTime", false))
.add(new BasicFieldTransformer("CreatedAtDate").dateTimeToDate())
.add(new BasicFieldTransformer("CreatedAtTime").dateTimeToTime())
.add(new MoveFieldAfter("CreatedAtDate", "CreatedAt"))
.add(new MoveFieldAfter("CreatedAtTime", "CreatedAtDate"));
// Write to console
DataWriter writer1 = new StreamWriter(System.out);
// Write to Excel
ExcelDocument document = new ExcelDocument();
DataWriter writer2 = new ExcelWriter(document).setSheetName("search");
// Write to both console and Excel
MultiWriter writer = new MultiWriter(writer1, writer2);
// Run job, writing to
Job.run(reader, writer);
// Save Excel file
document.save(new File("example/data/output/twitter-search.xlsx"));
}
}
