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Description: Ruby script that takes data from the BBC website and sends it to twitter/pollen_london
Homepage: http://twitter.com/pollen_london
Clone URL: git://github.com/snowblink/pollen-london.git 
[#1 state:resolved] Adding a date to each tweet to show when the data was 
pulled.
snowblink (author)
Fri May 16 09:59:12 -0700 2008
commit  e6fd4214a61931190e6a90ddbe117347415f30d0
tree    d2d7d5ee7592c0f7d2158ac361e3117a32bdd931
parent  929cab2618b27d7987623261575a5370de537fdf
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 require 'yaml'
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 twitter_config = YAML::load_file('twitter_config.yml')
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 twitter = Twitter::Client.new(twitter_config)
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+date = DateTime.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
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 # where I live
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 PLACE = "London"
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 elements.each do |image|
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   alt_text = image.get_attribute("alt")
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-  to_twitter << alt_text if alt_text.include?(PLACE)
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+  if alt_text.include?(PLACE)
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+    to_twitter << "#{alt_text} checked at #{date}"
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+  end
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 end
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 to_twitter.each do |update|

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