black_list.yml.sample @@ -2,12 +2,19 @@ A ruby script that will automatically follow all your followers. Gem dependencies: * twitter >= 0.2.6 +* hpricot Usage: follower = AutoFollower.new('admin@example.com', 'password') follower.start +follower.stalk('cincinnati') -NB: +Another option if you only want to follow your followers is +running it off command line like auto_follow.rb admin@example.com password + +You can black list people from been added to your friend by adding them to the yaml file called black_list.yml. + +NB: Twitter has limit on how many people you can follow in an hour. But if you schedule this script to run hourly it will eventually catchup. README @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rubygems' +require "logger" +require "yaml" gem "twitter", '>=0.2.6' require 'twitter' require 'hpricot' @@ -11,23 +13,41 @@ require 'hpricot' # follower.start # follower.stalk('cincinnati') # +# Another option if you only want to follow your followers is +# running it off command line like auto_follow.rb admin@example.com password +# class AutoFollower + FOLLOW_INTERVAL = 10 TWITTER_PAGE_SIZE = 100 + BLACK_LIST = 'black_list.yml' + + attr_accessor :black_list - def initialize(email, password) + def initialize(email, password, output = STDOUT, level = Logger::INFO) @twitter = Twitter::Base.new(email, password) + + output = eval(output) if output.is_a?(String) + level = eval(level) if level.is_a?(String) + + @log = Logger.new(output) + @log.sev_threshold = level + + @black_list = File.exist?(BLACK_LIST) ? YAML.load_file(BLACK_LIST) : [] end def start - (followers - friends).each { |name| follow(name) } + peeps = (followers - friends).find_all { |n| !black_listed?(n) } + + @log.info "Need to follow #{peeps.size} people" + peeps.each { |name| follow(name) } end def stalk(query, page = 1) doc = Hpricot(open("http://twitter.com/search/users?q=#{query}&page=#{page}")) names = doc.search(".screen_name span").collect { |d| d.innerHTML } return if names.empty? - (names - friends).each { |name| follow(name) } + (names - friends).find_all { |n| !black_listed?(n) }.each { |name| follow(name) } page = page + 1 stalk(query, page) end @@ -42,19 +62,31 @@ class AutoFollower private - def follow(name) + def black_listed?(name) + black_list.include?(name) + end + + def follow(name, delay = FOLLOW_INTERVAL) + @log.info "Following: #{name}" @twitter.create_friendship(name) + sleep delay end def find_followers(page = 1) + @log.debug "followers page: #{page}" f = @twitter.followers(:lite => true, :page => page).collect { |f| f.screen_name } return f if f.empty? || f.size < TWITTER_PAGE_SIZE f + find_followers(page + 1) end def find_friends(page = 1) + @log.debug "friends page: #{page}" f = @twitter.friends(:lite => true, :page => page).collect { |f| f.screen_name } return f if f.empty? || f.size < TWITTER_PAGE_SIZE f + find_friends(page + 1) end end + +if $0 == __FILE__ + AutoFollower.new(*ARGV).start +end \ No newline at end of file auto_follow.rb 0e91c65ac28e0efdc46058d9420d18fda0fff27d Andy Shen andy@shenie.info http://github.com/shenie/auto_follow/commit/45d0ffa3563616991febfca54952d69297bd303e 45d0ffa3563616991febfca54952d69297bd303e 2008-07-30T05:07:16-07:00 2008-07-30T05:07:16-07:00 added ability to black list people, added delay between each successive follow request, use logger and allow this file to be run as a script 0430a73da50f6231f361b217830a56e39e22d609 Andy Shen andy@shenie.info