Twitter4R

Developers

Contributors

Code:

  • Kaiichi Matsunaga - proxy code suggestion
  • Sergio Santos <> - message paging code suggestion
  • Adam Stiles - URI.encode => CGI.escape fix
  • Carl Crawley - Friendship get => post fix
  • Christian Johansen - in_reply_to attributes in Twitter::Status
  • Harry Love - added attributes to Twitter::Status
  • Filipe Giusti - fixed users/show issue that Twitter.com changed from under us, also inspired the v0.5.2 bugfix release by submitting great issue example code.
  • Seth Cousins <seth.cousins at gmail dot com> - added HTTP timeout option and provided a patch that inspired the OAuth support for Twitter4R
  • John McKerrell <@mcknut on twitter> - added geo attribute to Twitter::Message.

Design Suggestions:

  • Bosco So - making Twitter::Error a RuntimeError instead of an Exception to prevent irb from crashing out.

Description

Twitter4R provides an object based API to query or update your Twitter account via pure Ruby. It hides the ugly HTTP/REST code from your code.

External Dependencies

  • Ruby 1.8 (tested with 1.8.6)
  • RSpec gem 1.0.0+ (tested with 1.1.3)
  • JSON gem 0.4.3+ (tested with versions: 1.1.1 and 1.1.2)
  • jcode (for unicode support)

Usage Examples

Twitter4R starting with version 0.1.1 and above is organized into seven parts: