This sample shows how to use the Python SDK and Splunk to integrate with a third party tool (or service). In this specific case, we use a Leftronic Dashboard to show real-time Twitter data that we are indexing using the twitted example in the SDK.

There are two logical components to the sample: getting data from Splunk and pushing data to Leftronic.

In order to get data from Splunk, we start a variety of real time searches. For example, we have searches to get the current top hashtags (in a 5 minute sliding window), where users are tweeting from, etc.

We then start a loop which will ask each search job for new results, and we then put the results in a form that Leftronic can understand. Once the results are formed, we send them over to Leftronic using their API.

You need to change the code file to include your Leftronic access key. Once you do, you can simply run it by executing:

./feed.py

You will also need to run the twitted sample at the same time.