@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post title: "TweetStream: Ruby Access to the Twitter Streaming API" --- -Twitter's "Streaming API":http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation is one of the most exciting developments in the Twitter API in some time. It gives you the ability to create a long-standing connection to Twitter that receives "push" updates when new tweets matching certain criteria arrive, obviating the need to constantly poll for updates. "TweetStream":http://github.com/intridea/tweetstream is a new Ruby library to access the new API. +Twitter's "Streaming API":http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation is one of the most exciting developments in the Twitter API in some time. It gives you the ability to create a long-standing connection to Twitter that receives "push" updates when new tweets matching certain criteria arrive, obviating the need to constantly poll for updates. "TweetStream":http://github.com/intridea/tweetstream is a Ruby library to access the new API. h3. Installation @@ -26,19 +26,19 @@ require 'rubygems' require 'tweetstream' TweetStream::Client.new('user','pass').sample do |status| - puts "#{[status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" + puts "[#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" end{% endhighlight%} This will provide you with a small sample snapshot of all of the updates being posted to Twitter at this moment and print them to the screen. There are also methods available to track single-word keywords as well as the updates of a specified list of user ids (integers, not screen names). You can do that like so: {% highlight ruby %}# Track the terms 'keyword1' and 'keyword2' TweetStream::Client.new('user','pass').track('keyword1', 'keyword2') do |status| - puts "#{[status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" + puts "[#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" end # Track users with IDs 123 and 456 TweetStream::Client.new('user','pass').follow(123, 456) do |status| - puts "#{[status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" + puts "[#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}" end{% endhighlight %} h3. Daemonization _posts/2009-09-22-tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api.textile 158e83863add1a07acb9bd1704ea4a0a82dbab40 Michael Bleigh michael@intridea.com http://github.com/mbleigh/mbleigh.github.com/commit/e0e62f88e18ab65d75089d7f8beff4b0dc0ebc2d e0e62f88e18ab65d75089d7f8beff4b0dc0ebc2d 2009-09-25T14:23:28-07:00 2009-09-25T14:23:28-07:00 Fixing typos. e9d74bda0a5a92df9f8d702ac1748f0e5bb029c8 Michael Bleigh michael@intridea.com