Module: Tweets::Extensions::String

Defined in:
lib/tweets.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#tweets ⇒ Object

Retrieve the latest tweets defined by the string version of yourself.

Example:

>> "justin bieber".tweets
=> ["the bieb is amazing!", "moar beeb plox", ...]

>> "@user".tweets
=> ["@user you are amazing", ...]

>> "#tag"
=> ["#tag is the most cool twitter tag evah ya!", ...]

The string can contain the syntax that is allowed in any of the twitter search Arguments:

language: (String)

See Also:



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# File 'lib/tweets.rb', line 27

def tweets
  search = URI.escape(self.to_s, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]"))

  begin
    json = JSON.parse open("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=#{search}").read.to_s
    json["results"].map { |result| result["text"] } unless json.has_key? "error" || []
  rescue SocketError
    # no socket connection.
    raise SocketError, "Could not connect to the twitter search api. Check your internet connection."
  rescue JSON::ParserError
    # not json?
    raise JSON::ParserError, "The response received from twitter was not JSON. Check your internet connection."
  end
end