Is there any other free streaming sources like twitter for practicing spark and Kafka

Question

Friends I am learning Kafka and Spark.
I worked in Kafka and spark integration using Twitter api but I want to do more practice Is there any other free streaming sources like twitter for practicing spark and Kafka

Answer 1

Please see if the data sources listed here helps -

https://www.octoparse.com/blog/big-data-70-amazing-free-data-sources-you-should-know-for-2017?qu

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Answer 2

Hello @Surendiran Balasubramanian ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform.

You may checkout the below articles which describes about the streaming data source and sinks which are available in Azure Databricks.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/spark/latest/structured-streaming/data-sources
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/getting-started/spark/streaming
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/spark/latest/structured-streaming/examples
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/data/stream-processing-databricks

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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