TwitterSearchWatcher

Sometimes, we want to continually search Twitter for something like a hashtag to display the latest results on our sites.

TwitterSearchWatcher is a simple gem for continually searching Twitter for something and calling a callback whenever new tweets are present.

Installation

sudo gem install json
sudo gem install devfu-twitter-search-watcher -s http://gems.github.com

Usage

TwitterSearchWatcher.watch! '#laidoffcamp', :max_pages => 1 do |tweet|
  puts "#{ tweet.from_user }: #{ tweet.text }"
end

For additional usage, see RDoc at code.devfu.com/twitter-search-watcher or the specs at github.com/devfu/twitter-search-watcher/blob/master/spec/twitter_search_watcher_spec.rb