Class: TwitterParser

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/twitter_parser.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initialize(tweet) ⇒ TwitterParser

Returns a new instance of TwitterParser.



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 5

def initialize(tweet)
  @tweet = Nokogiri::HTML.parse(tweet)
end

Instance Method Details

#get_favorite_count ⇒ Object

Get the # of favorites



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 66

def get_favorite_count
  @tweet.css(".ProfileTweet-action--favorite")[0].css("span")[0]['data-tweet-stat-count']
end

#get_fullname ⇒ Object

Get the fullname



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 36

def get_fullname
  @tweet.css(".fullname").text
end

#get_mentions ⇒ Object

Get the mentioned accounts (if any)



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 88

def get_mentions
  mentions = @tweet.css(".twitter-atreply")
  if !mentions.empty?
    mention_names = mentions.map{|t| t.text}
    mention_uids = mentions.map{|t| t['data-mentioned-user-id']}
    return mention_names, mention_uids
  else
    return nil, nil
  end
end

#get_reply_count ⇒ Object

Get the # of replies



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 71

def get_reply_count
  @tweet.css(".ProfileTweet-action--reply")[0].css("span")[0]['data-tweet-stat-count']
end

#get_reply_to_user ⇒ Object

Get the user tweet is replying to (if any)



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 76

def get_reply_to_user
  reply_to = @tweet.css("span").select{|s| s.text.include?("In reply")}[0]
  if reply_to
    reply_to_user = reply_to.css("a")[0]['href'].gsub("/", "@")
    reply_to_uid = reply_to.css("a")[0]['data-user-id']
    return reply_to_user, reply_to_uid
  else
    return nil, nil
  end
end

#get_retweet_count ⇒ Object

Get the # of retweets



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 61

def get_retweet_count
  @tweet.css(".ProfileTweet-action--retweet")[0].css("span")[0]['data-tweet-stat-count']
end

#get_tweet_link ⇒ Object

Get the link to the tweet



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 56

def get_tweet_link
  "https://twitter.com"+@tweet.css(".tweet-timestamp")[0]['href']
end

#get_tweet_text ⇒ Object

Get the tweet text



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 46

def get_tweet_text
  @tweet.css(".js-tweet-text-container").text.lstrip.strip
end

#get_tweet_time ⇒ Object

Get the time for the tweet



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 51

def get_tweet_time
  DateTime.parse(@tweet.css(".tweet-timestamp")[0]["title"]).strftime('%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S')
end

#get_user_id ⇒ Object

Get user ID number



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 41

def get_user_id
  @tweet.css(".js-user-profile-link").css(".account-group")[0]["data-user-id"]
end

#get_username ⇒ Object

Get the username



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 31

def get_username
  @tweet.css(".username").text
end

#parse_tweet ⇒ Object

Parse the individual tweet



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# File 'lib/twitter_parser.rb', line 10

def parse_tweet
  if !@tweet.text.empty?
    return {
      tweet_text: get_tweet_text,
      username: get_username,
      fullname: get_fullname,
      user_id: get_user_id,
      reply_to_user: get_reply_to_user[0],
      reply_to_uid: get_reply_to_user[1],
      tweet_time: get_tweet_time,
      tweet_link: get_tweet_link,
      retweet_count: get_retweet_count,
      favorite_count: get_favorite_count,
      reply_count: get_reply_count,
      mention_names: get_mentions[0],
      mention_uids: get_mentions[1]
    }
  end
end