You'll need the json gem installed. Once you have that you can run the script like...
./twitter_stream.rb <username> <password>Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Handling the Twitter Stream API with Ruby
I've been doing a lot of things with the Twitter API lately. More on that another time though. I started messing around with their stream API last night. It's pretty fun to play with and I wanted to put the code up somewhere so I can use it later. Right now it works, but it clearly isn't very robust. It needs retry logic and better error handling. Right now, it's just a toy :)
You'll need the json gem installed. Once you have that you can run the script like...
You'll need the json gem installed. Once you have that you can run the script like...
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or you could just do it the easy way ;P
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require 'tweetstream'
TweetStream::Client.new('username','password').track('awesome') do |status|
puts "#{status.text}"
end
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http://github.com/intridea/tweetstream
I could have, I saw the library of course. I wanted to write it by hand without any additional magic. It was a purely academic exercise :)
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