Streaming data from Mastodon public timelines to Apache Kafka® with NodeJS

This repository illustrates

1. How to stream the data from Mastadon with Mastodon client library
2. How to use node-rdkafka to send Mastodon data to an Apache Kafka topic.

Set up

1. Add your ca.pem, certificate.cert and service.key to certificates folder.
2. Copy .env.example, rename to .env and set kafka.uri to point to you Aiven for Apache Kafka service
3. Add your Mastodon token to .env
4. Run npm install
5. Run npm run start

Contributions

This project does not expect any contributions.

License

This work is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Full license text is available in the LICENSE file and at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

Trademarks

Apache Kafka is either a registered trademark or trademark of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.