#!/usr/bin/ruby
# Copyright Benjamin Goering, 2009
# b@enjam.in
# Released under GNU GPL v3
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
require 'htmlentities'
require 'optparse'
require 'ostruct'
if ARGV.size == 0 then
print "Not enough args. Use `twitterBuddy -h` for help.\n"
exit 1
end
class TwitterOpts
def self.parse(args)
options = OpenStruct.new
options.linebreaks = 2
options.numtweets = 15
options.title = "Twitter Timeline"
options.hidetitle = false
options.who = :friends
options.need_to_log_on = false;
opts = OptionParser.new do |opts|
opts.on_tail("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do
puts opts
puts "\tNote: the --search and --hashtag switches have precedence over the -w flag."
puts "\tAlso: you do not need to supply username and password flags to use the --search and --hashtag switches."
exit
end
opts.on("-u", "--username login",
"Login to twitter with username [login]") {|login| options.login = login}
opts.on("-p", "--password pass",
"Login to twitter with password [pass]") do |pass|
options.pass = pass
options.need_to_log_on = true
end
opts.on("-n", "--num-tweets num", Integer,
"Show [num] tweets") {|n| options.numtweets = n}
opts.on("-l", "--line-breaks breaks", Integer,
"Insert [breaks] linebreaks between each tweet"){|breaks| options.linebreaks = breaks}
opts.on("-w", "--who who", ["everybody","me",:friends],
"Select which tweets to show (public, me, friends)") do |who|
who = case who
when "me" then :user
when "everybody" then :public
end if who.class == String
options.need_to_log_on = true;
options.who = who
end
opts.on("-s", "--search query",
"Show results of search for keyword [query]") do |query|
options.searchquery = query
end
opts.on("-g", "--hashtag tag", String,
"Shows only tweets with hashtag of [tag]") {|tag| options.hasht = tag}
opts.on("-t", "--title title", String,
"Replaces title text with custom [title] string") {|title| options.title = title}
opts.on(:NONE, "-i", "--hide-title", "Hide title string") { options.hidetitle = true}
end #opts
opts.parse!(args)
options
end #parse()
end #class TwitterOpts
options = TwitterOpts.parse(ARGV)
decoder = HTMLEntities.new
print options.title + "\n"*options.linebreaks unless (options.hidetitle)
if (options.searchquery or options.hasht)
search = Twitter::Search.new
search.containing(options.searchquery) if options.searchquery
search.hashed(options.hasht) if options.hasht
begin
tempr = search.fetch
raise error if tempr["results"].size==0
rescue
puts "ERROR: No results found for that query"
exit 1
end
results = tempr["results"]
for result in results[0,options.numtweets]
printf "%s: %s",result["from_user"],decoder.decode(result["text"]) + "\n"*options.linebreaks
end
elsif options.need_to_log_on then
begin
twit = Twitter::Base.new(options.login,options.pass)
tweets = twit.timeline(options.who)[0,options.numtweets]
for tweet in tweets
printf "%s: %s",tweet.user.screen_name,decoder.decode(tweet.text) + "\n"*options.linebreaks
end
rescue
puts "ERROR: Could not connect with twitter. Did you specify a username and password?"
exit 1
end
else
end
