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/*    This file is apart of Hadoop-prime
    
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Copyright 2012 Cameron Cook 
 */
package edu.american.student.util;

import java.util.List;

import twitter4j.Query;
import twitter4j.QueryResult;
import twitter4j.Status;
import twitter4j.Twitter;
import twitter4j.TwitterException;
import twitter4j.TwitterFactory;
import twitter4j.conf.ConfigurationBuilder;
import edu.american.student.conf.Constants;
import edu.american.student.exception.SpiderException;

/**
 * An interface to Twitter
 * Uses: Twitter4J 3.0.2
 * @author cam
 *
 */
public class TwitterSpider {
    /**
     * Grabs the last 100 tweet objects (Status) from a handle
     * @param handle
     * @return
     * @throws SpiderException
     */
    public static List<Status> spider(String handle) throws SpiderException {
        //connect to Twitter
        ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
        cb.setDebugEnabled(true).setOAuthConsumerKey(Constants.getTwitterOAuthConsumerKey())
                .setOAuthConsumerSecret(Constants.getTwitterOAuthConsumerSecret())
                .setOAuthAccessToken(Constants.getTwitterOAuthAccessToken())
                .setOAuthAccessTokenSecret(Constants.getTwitterOAuthAccessTokenSecret());
        TwitterFactory tf = new TwitterFactory(cb.build());

        Twitter twitter = tf.getInstance();
        //get  tweets
        Query query = new Query("from:" + handle.replace("@", ""));
        query.setCount(100);
        QueryResult result;
        try {
            result = twitter.search(query);
            List<Status> toReturn = result.getTweets();
            return toReturn;
        } catch (TwitterException e) {
            String gripe = "Twitter spider failed to...err spider!";
            throw new SpiderException(gripe, e);
        }
    }
}