I needed something to keep me posted on Webbynode's-related twitter posts and found out that there were some Apps on AppStore that would charge you .99 EUR per keyword. Nah. I Installed Prowl for USD 2.99 instead so I can get any notifications I can take, straight from a Ruby daemon. Then I just deployed this to a Webby...
Disclaimer: The code is very dirty but works for my needs :)
- Prowl for iPhone
- and/or Gmail Account
- Ruby and Gems: tweetstream, redis, prowl, fcoury-gmail and tlsmail
- Redis
To install on Ubuntu:
$ git clone git://github.com/fcoury/intweet.git $ cd intweet $ ./install.sh
$ cp config.yml.example config.yml
- terms
- Array of keywords to monitor
- twitter_user
- Your twitter user
- twitter_password
- Your twitter password
- notify_by_prowl
- If *true*, uses Prowl for iPhone to get notifications
- prowl_apikey
- Your Prowl API Key (set it up here)
- notify_by_email
- If *true*, sends emails notifications
- Email to receive the notifications
- gmail_user
- Your gmail username
- gmail_password
- Your gmail password
- send_period
- Times between sending batches