SocialCount

This gem is an incredibly ligh-weight wrapper for finding how many facebook friends and twitter followers someone has.

Installation

gem 'social_count' # In your Gemfile

$ gem install social_count # Install locally

Usage

1) Configure your credentials:

# Instantiate the credentials object
SocialCount.credentials = SocialCount::Credentials.new

# Then set the following values
SocialCount.credentials.twitter_consumer_key
SocialCount.credentials.twitter_consumer_secret
SocialCount.credentials.twitter_oauth_token
SocialCount.credentials.twitter_oauth_token_secret
SocialCount.credentials.fb_app_id
SocialCount.credentials.fb_app_secret

2) Get the Facebook follower count of any business page:

SocialCount::FacebookUser.new('zuck').follower_count # Find out how many people are following Mark Zuckerberg
SocialCount::FacebookUser.new('zuck').friend_count # nil -- Mark has a business page because he's so famous

3) Get the Facebook friend count of any regular facebook user:

SocialCount::FacebookUser.new('jose.valim').friend_count # Find out how many friends Jose Valim has -- I wish he were as famous as Mark
SocialCount::FacebookUser.new('jose.valim').follower_count # nil
# I think there are more Devise users than Facebook users in China.  As least that's on place where Jose is more famous than Mark

4) Get the Twitter follower count of any user:

SocialMedia::TwitterUser.new('tsa').follower_count # Find out how many people are following the Transportation security Administration

5) Check if someone is on Facebook:

orwell = SocialCount::FacebookUser.new('george_orwell')
orwell.valid? # False -- Not everyone is cool enough to be one Facebook
orwell.friend_count # nil

6) Check if someone is on Twitter:

nsa = SocialCount::TwitterUser.new('no_such_agency')
nsa.valid? # False -- Nobody can follow the NSA
nsa.follower_count # nil