Class: Wuclan::Twitter::Scrape::TwitterFavoritesRequest

Inherits:
Base
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/wuclan/twitter/scrape/twitter_followers_request.rb

Overview

API request for the tweets favorited by the given user. At 20 requests per page, this is the worst bargain on the Twitter API call market.

Produces max 20 TwitterUser,Profile,Style and the favorited Tweet.

Before early 2009, produced TwitterUserPartials, not full records

apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-favorites

Direct Known Subclasses

Favorites

Constant Summary

Constants inherited from Base

Base::BAD_CHARS

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from Base

#key, #make_url, #num_items, #request_for_page, #response=

Instance Method Details

#healthy? ⇒ Boolean

Extracted JSON should be an array

Returns:

  • (Boolean) 


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# File 'lib/wuclan/twitter/scrape/twitter_followers_request.rb', line 107

def healthy?()
  parsed_contents && parsed_contents.is_a?(Array)
end

#items_count(thing) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/wuclan/twitter/scrape/twitter_followers_request.rb', line 104

def items_count(thing) thing.favourites_count end

#parse(*args, &block) ⇒ Object

unpacks the raw API response, yielding all the interesting objects and relationships within.



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# File 'lib/wuclan/twitter/scrape/twitter_followers_request.rb', line 120

def parse *args, &block
  return unless healthy?
  parsed_contents.each do |hsh|
    json_obj = JsonTweetWithUser.new(hsh, 'scraped_at' => scraped_at)
    next unless json_obj && json_obj.healthy?
    #
    # Extract user, tweet and relationship
    yield AFavoritesB.new(self.twitter_user_id, json_obj.user.id, json_obj.tweet.id) if json_obj.user && json_obj.tweet
    json_obj.each(&block)
  end
end

#set_total_items(twitter_user_info) ⇒ Object

set max_total_items from the favourites_count.



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# File 'lib/wuclan/twitter/scrape/twitter_followers_request.rb', line 112

def set_total_items 
  self.max_total_items = ['favourites_count'].to_i rescue nil
end