Im trying to make an app which would iterate through my own posts and get a list of users who favorited a post. Afterwards I would like the application to follow each of those users if I am not already following them. I am using Ruby for this.
This is my code now:
#client = Twitter::REST::Client.new(config)
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
user = #client.user()
tweets = #client.user_timeline(user).take(20)
num_of_tweets = tweets.length
puts "tweets found: #{tweets.length}"
tweets.each do |item|
puts "#{ item}" #iterating through my posts here
end
any suggestions?
That information isn't exposed in the Twitter API, either through a timeline collection or via the endpoint representing a single tweet. This'll be why the twitter gem, which provides a useable interface around the Rest API, cannot give you what you're after.
Third party sites such as Favstar do display that information, but as far as I know their own API does not expose the relevant users in any manageable way.
I'm looking to write a script to import tweets by only grabbing tweets with the designated hashtag. And I'm a little confused on how I would go about doing that. Ideally I would like just the raw data. Nothing fancy.
I tried working with tweetstream in Ruby but I see the majority of Twitter API is in JSON, which I'm not too familiar with. Anyways, does anyone have an idea of how I can simply import tweets based on a hashtag? Maybe stream it in my terminal?
JSON is the foundation of many web APIs. I think the general consensus would be...
Learn JSON
It really is not that hard of a notation. Here is a tutorial specifically on JSON in Ruby.
Example:
require 'json'
json_result = "{'tweet': '#awesomesauce is for the #winner'}" # From Twitter API
results = JSON.parse(json_result)
# => {:tweet => "#awesomesauce is for the #winner"}
I've found facebook's 'Graph API Explorer' tool (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/) to be an incredibly easy way, welcoming (for beginners) & effective way to use facebook's graph API via its GUI.
I'd like to be able to use the koala gem to pass these generated URLs to facebook's api.
Right now, lets say I had a query like this
url = "me?fields=id,name,posts.fields(likes.fields(id,name),comments.fields(parent,likes.fields(id,name)),message)"
I'd like to be able to pass that directly into koala as a single string.
#graph.get_connections(url)
It doesn't like that so I separate out the uid and the ? operator like the gem seems to want
url = "fields=id,name,posts.fields(likes.fields(id,name),comments.fields(parent,likes.fields(id,name)),message)"
#graph.get_connections("me", url)
This however, returns an error as well:
Koala::Facebook::AuthenticationError:
type: OAuthException, code: 2500,
message: Unknown path components: /fields=id,name,posts.fields(likes.fields(id,name),comments.fields(parent,likes.fields(id,name)),message) [HTTP 400]
Currently this is where I am stuck. I'd like to continue using koala because I like the gem-approach to working with API's, especially when it comes to using OAuth & OAuth2.
UPDATE:
I'm starting to break down the request into pieces which the koala gem can handle, for example
posts = #graph.get_connections("me", "posts")
postids = posts.map { |p| p['id'] }
likes = postids.inject([]) {|ary, id| ary << #graph.get_connection(id, "likes") }
So that's a long way of getting two arrays, one of posts, one of like data.
But I'd quickly burn up my API requests limit in no time using this kind of approach.
I was kind of hoping I'd just be able to pass the whole string from the Graph API Explorer and just get what I wanted rather than having to manually parse all this stuff.
I don't really know about your posts.fields(likes.fields(id,name) －this does not work in the Graph API Explorer－ and stuff like that but I know you can do this:
fb_api = Koala::Facebook::API.new(access_token)
fb_api.api("/me?fields=id,name,posts")
# => => {"id"=>"71170", "name"=>"My Name", "posts"=>{"paging"=>{"next"=>"https://graph.facebook.com/71170/posts?access_token=CAAEO&limit=25&until=13705022", "previous"=>"https://graph.facebook.com/711737070/posts?access_token=CAAEOTYMZD&limit=25&since=1370723&__previous=1"}, "data"=>[{"id"=>"71170_1013572471", "comments"=>{"count"=>0}, "created_time"=>"2013-06-09T08:03:43+0000", "from"=>{"id"=>"71170", "name"=>"My Name"}, "updated_time"=>"2013-06-09T08:03:43+0000", "privacy"=>{"value"=>""}, "type"=>"status", "story_tags"=>{"0"=>[{"id"=>"71170", "name"=>" ", "length"=>8, "type"=>"user", "offset"=>0}]}, "story"=>" likes a photo."}]}}
And you will receive in a hash what you asked for.
From time to time, you must pass nil as a param to koala:
result += graph_api.batch do |batch_api|
facebook_page_ids.each do |facebook_page_id|
batch_api.get_connections(facebook_page_id, nil, {"fields"=>"posts"})
end
end
I should say I'm new to Ruby. I just managed to create a Twitter app and configure The Twitter Ruby Gem to tweet, display tweets and so on. The problem is that when I fetch tweets, the actual content is not displayed, instead, I get somehting like #<Twitter::Tweet:0x2a3de78>.
I simply use this code snippet:
puts Twitter.status(123456789)
That's because the Twitter.status method returns an instance of the class Twitter::Tweet.
To extract data from Twitter::Tweet you have to call some methods on it, like text:
puts Twitter.status(...).text
I want to download and parse all the event data from a website's public google calendar, what would be the best way to do so? I'm considering just downloading the ics file or getting xml data and parsing that myself. I've looked into google api but it looks unnecessarily complex if all I want to do is read the data. I'm a beginner to working with API's and programming in general so I'm having trouble navigating all that documentation. They don't provide very many helpful examples.
How about something like this:
require 'ri_cal'
require 'open-uri'
components = nil
open("https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ocs.events%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics") do |cal|
components = RiCal.parse(cal)
end
components.each do |calendar|
calendar.events.each do |event|
puts "#{event.summary} starts at: #{event.dtstart} and ends at #{event.dtend}"
end
end
You will need to install the ri_gem.
UPDATE: Using iCalendar
require 'icalendar'
require 'open-uri'
calendars = nil
open("https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ocs.events%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics") do |cal|
#calendars = RiCal.parse(cal)
calendars = Icalendar.parse(cal)
end
calendars.each do |calendar|
calendar.events.each do |event|
puts "#{event.summary} starts at: #{event.dtstart} and ends at #{event.dtend}"
end
end