X-Tracker is an open-source platform aimed at bringing transparency to social media interactions, particularly on Twitter. It allows users to monitor and track the statistics of specific tweets, providing a visual representation of how tweets are performing over time.
- Real-time tracking of tweet metrics including:
- Likes
- Views
- Retweets
- Retweets with citation
- Comments
- Bookmarks
- User-friendly interface to add tweets to the tracking pool.
- Advanced charting experience with Highcharts, allowing users to zoom, scroll, select different periods, and see real-time updates.
- Tampermonkey script generation for users to run the tracker in their own browser and contribute to the data pool.
- Community-driven: Users can contribute by adding new tweets to the pool or by running the tracking script to gather data.
- Ruby on Rails
- Bulma for styling
- Highcharts for data visualization
- RSpec with FactoryBot for testing
- PostgreSQL as the database
- Hosted on Heroku
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/hoblin/x-tracker.git
cd x-tracker- Install dependencies:
bundle install
yarn install- Setup the database:
rails db:create db:migrate- Start the Rails server:
rails s- Open your browser and navigate to
http://localhost:3000.
X-Tracker is an open-source project, and contributions are warmly welcomed. Whether you have suggestions, a bug report, or a feature request, feel free to open an issue or create a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.