Importing Twitter data into HDFS using Flume
Flume is another tool that helps us import data from various other sources into HDFS. In this recipe, we are going to see how to import Twitter data using Flume. Twitter data is a great source of information provided by individuals. This data can be used to do sentiment analytics of certain products, persons, companies, and so on.
Getting ready
To perform this recipe, you should have a Hadoop cluster running with you as well as the latest version of Flume installed on it. Here I am using Flume 1.6.
How to do it...
To import data using Flume, first of all we need to have a Twitter account and we need to generate credentials. These credentials would be used by Flume agent to import the data. Flume by default supports sources to import data from Twitter, so there is no need to do anything else other than having an account and generating credentials.
Following is the step-by-step process to generate Twitter authorization tokens:
Log in to https://apps.twitter...
