#!/usr/bin/env ruby
## MarioKarTwiit
## Finds Mario Kart Wii codes through your friends' timelines on Twitter.
## Use it with your twitter username like so:
## ruby mariokartwiit.rb username
#
# Needs the json gem:
# sudo gem install json
#
# TODO:
# - Go further back than 20 statuses per friend
# - Deal with people with more than 100 friends
# - Turn it into a webapp
#
# By Sunny Ripert - http://sunfox.org
# Under the WTFPL - http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
# Learn more about the Twitter API over here: http://twitter.com/help/api
require 'open-uri'
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
class MarioKarTwiit
MARIO_KART_CODE_RE = /(\d{4}-\d{4}-\d{4})/
# Returns an array of twitter friends who have a Wii Mario Kart. The user hash
# contains the code, a name, a screen_name and the full status hash that matched.
#
# mariokartwiits_for("sunfox")
# # => [{"screen_name" => "adylk", "name" => "Audrey", "code" => "9837-...
# ..., "status" => {"text" => "My Mario Kart Wii Code is ..., ...}]
def self.friends_with_codes_for(username)
friends_with_codes = []
followers_for(username).each do |friend|
friend["statuses"].each do |status|
if status['text'] =~ MARIO_KART_CODE_RE
friend["code"] = $1
friend["status"] = status
friends_with_codes << friend
break
end
end
end
friends_with_codes
end
# Returns an array of user hashes with all their latest statuses
def self.followers_for(username)
friends = JSON.parse(open("http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/#{username}.json?lite=true").read)
threads = []
statuses = []
friends.each do |friend|
threads << Thread.new(friend) do |user|
friend["statuses"] = JSON.parse(open("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/#{user["screen_name"]}.json").read)
end
end
threads.each { |thread| thread.join }
friends
end
end
# Usage is made of oranges and lemonade and lines starting with "##"
def usage
open(__FILE__).read.grep(/^## ?/).join.gsub(/^## ?/, '')
end
if __FILE__ == $0
abort usage if ARGV.size < 1
MarioKarTwiit.friends_with_codes_for(ARGV.first).each do |friend|
puts "#{friend["name"]}: #{friend["code"]}"
end
end
