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README.md

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+# 24 Hours
+A 24-hour poetry composed by 1440 global tweets, part of gallery show 'Clock' at Frog NY 2015
+
+[DEMO](http://xyfeng.github.io/24hours/) ( Data is queried at New York on April 10th, 2015, it happened to be the Apple Watch Pre-Order day )
+
+## How did the data is collected
+I used python script to crawl data from twitter search engine in [Iron](http://www.iron.io/) and store it in my [Parse](http://www.parse.com/) account.
+
+## Script
+IRON: `iron_worker upload iron`
+
+### Thermal Printer
+Download [Gimp-Print](http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/)
+
+Enable Cups Web Interfaces `cupsctl WebInterface=yes`
+
+Go to URL  `http://127.0.0.1:631/`
+
+Add Printer `Choose 'Raw' as maker`
+
+Check Printer Status `lpstat -p -d`
+
+Print Txt File  `lp -d Thermal_Label_Printer xxxx.txt`
+
+### Linux (Setup using Raspberry Pi)
+1. The printer uses a WinBond CDC USB chip, so linux mounts it automatically as /dev/usb/lp0.
+2. $ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/usb/lp0
+3. $ echo 'Testing 1 2 3' > /dev/usb/lp0

printLive.py

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+import datetime
+import time
+import json
+import httplib
+import urllib
+import os
+
+oneminuteearlier = datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
+printTime = oneminuteearlier.strftime('%l:%M%p').replace(' ','')
+
+while True:
+    currTime = time.strftime('%l:%M%p').replace(' ','')
+    if currTime != printTime:
+        printTime = currTime
+        connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
+        connection.connect()
+        params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
+                "timestamp": printTime
+             })})
+        connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/tweets?%s' % params, '', {
+                "X-Parse-Application-Id": "9apBIWvcBtevWLeFPifONqYg8kc1gvojPhBRPytI",
+                "X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "ftbwSwgPKg4gq9sVo8twze4fyDpL2McJhThQhA5Z"
+             })
+        result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())['results'][0]
+
+        print result['tweet']
+
+        # Save to File
+        text_file = open("toPrint.txt", "w")
+        text_file.write("%s\n\n\n" % result['tweet'].encode('utf-8'))
+        text_file.close()
+
+        # Print
+        os.system("lp -d Thermal_Label_Printer toPrint.txt")

printTweet.py

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+import time
+import json
+import os
+
+data = json.load(open('24h.json'))
+
+printTime = time.strftime('%l:%M%p').replace(' ','')
+hourIndex = int(time.strftime('%H'))
+while True:
+    currTime = time.strftime('%l:%M%p').replace(' ','')
+    if currTime != printTime:
+        printTime = currTime
+        msg = data[hourIndex][printTime]
+        text_file = open("toPrint.txt", "w")
+        text_file.write("%s\n\n\n" % data[hourIndex][printTime].encode('utf-8'))
+        text_file.close()
+        os.system("lp -d Thermal_Label_Printer toPrint.txt")
+        # print msg

queryTimeStamp.py

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+from TwitterSearch import *
+from datetime import datetime
+import time
+import json
+
+msgList = []
+sleep_for = 5
+
+tso = TwitterSearchOrder()
+tso.set_language('en')
+tso.set_locale('ja')
+tso.set_result_type('recent')
+tso.set_count(1)
+
+ts = TwitterSearch(
+    consumer_key = 'F8QnORsYQqXiY2zu7FDmxfRsL',
+    consumer_secret = '5v7l0GxfUb0ukigxTsvwiGungqWfZjBGv5fSygnXOUGH5JFbph',
+    access_token = '17522673-AmQBBeDcHwkwJVtkwxhOW8iESiW5xoVlZeLNMOEIp',
+    access_token_secret = 'hRyBq99BDmjXFaCnKTZ3YGVEUaFQz9bP0T7whvV0FFOv7'
+)
+
+for h in range(0, 24):
+    hourList = {}
+    for m in range(0, 60):
+        one = datetime(2000, 1, 1, h, m, 0, 0)
+        timestamp = one.strftime("%l:%M%p").replace (" ", "")
+        print timestamp
+        search_word = '#'+timestamp
+        tso.set_keywords([search_word])
+        try:
+            response = ts.search_tweets(tso)
+            # print( "rate-limiting status: %s" % ts.get_metadata()['x-rate-limit-remaining'] )
+
+            for tweet in response['content']['statuses']:
+                hourList[timestamp] = '@%s: %s' % ( tweet['user']['screen_name'].encode('utf-8'), tweet['text'].encode('utf-8') )
+                break
+
+        except TwitterSearchException as e:
+            print(e)
+
+        time.sleep(sleep_for)
+    msgList.append(hourList)
+
+with open("24h.json", "w") as outfile:
+    json.dump(msgList, outfile)