One useful way of exploring streamtools is via its examples. You can find them on github at https://github.com/nytlabs/streamtools/tree/master/examples. To use them you need to import them into streamtools. For this, you need to have an already running streamtools instance - see the install instructions in the README.

One way to import the examples goes as follows:

0. Open a terminal.

1. Download the example to the current directory. You can do this however you like. A quick wget will suffice:

    wget https://raw.github.com/nytlabs/streamtools/master/examples/citibike.json
   

2. Import the pattern. To do this you must use streamtools' import endpoint. Assuming you are running streamtools on the default port, run

    curl http://localhost:7070/import [email protected]
   

   All this does is POST the citibike JSON file to the streamtools import endpoint. Now, if you visit your streamtools interface you should see live citibike data!