imclab / twitterick

Crowdsourced limericks.

Generate some shitty "limericks" where each line is a tweet.

Like this and this but [limericks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry).

The code is written in Python and built on top of redis and postgres. To use it, check out the code, set up a virtual environment and then run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

The twitter scraper can be run with:

python twitter.py

Make sure that you have the right environment variables with all your Twitter API settings. In another process, launch the parser (it uses Redis pubsub to listen to the scraper):

python parse.py

This uses NLTK to try and figure out the pronunciation of the tweets and saves them to a Postgres database along with the number of syllables and the last four phonemes. Finally, run the Flask app with:

python run_app.py