Connect to Twitter Data in DBArtisan

The CData ODBC Driver for Twitter seamlessly integrates Twitter data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Twitter data as a database. This article shows how to create an data source for Twitter in DBArtisan and execute queries. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Twitter Data into DBArtisan Projects

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

All tables require authentication. You can connect using your User and Password or OAuth. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can register an app to obtain your own.

If you intend to communicate with Twitter only as the currently authenticated user, then you can obtain the OAuthAccessToken and OAuthAccessTokenSecret directly by registering an app.

See the Getting Started chapter in the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.

You can then follow the steps below to register Twitter data as a database instance in your project:

1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
2. Select Generic ODBC.
3. Enter a name for the data source and select the DSN.
4. Finish the wizard to connect to Twitter data. Twitter entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Twitter data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Twitter API.