Erlang Twitter Streams

-module(twitter_stream).
-author('[email protected]').
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%% API
-export([fetch/1, fetch/3, process_data/1]).
 
% single arg version expects url of the form http://user:[email protected]/1/statuses/sample.json
% this will spawn the 3 arg version so the shell is free
fetch(URL) ->
  spawn(twitter_stream, fetch, [URL, 5, 30]).
 
% 3 arg version expects url of the form http://user:[email protected]/1/statuses/sample.json  
% retry - number of times the stream is reconnected
% sleep - secs to sleep between retries.
fetch(URL, Retry, Sleep) when Retry > 0 ->
  % setup the request to process async
  % and have it stream the data back to this process
  try http:request(get, 
                    {URL, []},
                    [], 
                    [{sync, false}, 
                     {stream, self}]) of
    {ok, RequestId} ->
      case receive_chunk(RequestId) of
        {ok, _} ->
          % stream broke normally retry 
          timer:sleep(Sleep * 1000),
          fetch(URL, Retry - 1, Sleep);
        {error, unauthorized, Result} ->
          {error, Result, unauthorized};
        {error, timeout} ->
          timer:sleep(Sleep * 1000),
          fetch(URL, Retry - 1, Sleep);
        {_, Reason} ->
          error_logger:info_msg("Got some Reason ~p ~n", [Reason]),
          timer:sleep(Sleep * 1000),
          fetch(URL, Retry - 1, Sleep)
      end;
    _ ->
      timer:sleep(Sleep * 1000),
      fetch(URL, Retry - 1, Sleep)
  catch 
    _:_ -> 
      timer:sleep(Sleep * 1000),
      fetch(URL, Retry - 1, Sleep)
  end;
%
fetch(_, Retry, _) when Retry =< 0 ->
  error_logger:info_msg("No more retries done with processing fetch thread~n"),
  {error, no_more_retry}.
%
% this is the tweet handler persumably you could do something useful here
%
process_data(Data) ->
  error_logger:info_msg("Received tweet ~p ~n", [Data]),
  ok.
 
%%====================================================================
%% Internal functions
%%====================================================================
receive_chunk(RequestId) ->
  receive
    {http, {RequestId, {error, Reason}}} when(Reason =:= etimedout) orelse(Reason =:= timeout) -> 
      {error, timeout};
    {http, {RequestId, {{_, 401, _} = Status, Headers, _}}} -> 
      {error, unauthorized, {Status, Headers}};
    {http, {RequestId, Result}} -> 
      {error, Result};
 
    %% start of streaming data
    {http,{RequestId, stream_start, Headers}} ->
      error_logger:info_msg("Streaming data start ~p ~n",[Headers]),
      receive_chunk(RequestId);
 
    %% streaming chunk of data
    %% this is where we will be looping around, 
    %% we spawn this off to a seperate process as soon as we get the chunk and go back to receiving the tweets
    {http,{RequestId, stream, Data}} ->
      spawn(twitter_stream, process_data, [Data]),
      receive_chunk(RequestId);
 
    %% end of streaming data
    {http,{RequestId, stream_end, Headers}} ->
      error_logger:info_msg("Streaming data end ~p ~n", [Headers]),
      {ok, RequestId}
 
  %% timeout
  after 60 * 1000 ->
    {error, timeout}
 
  end.