Rbitter
Rbitter is a Twitter streaming client specialized in tweet archiving with remote access via XMLRPC, which is written in Ruby.
You can save all tweets appeared on your home timeline and watch them later.
Requirements
Rbitter is tested under MRI, JRuby and Rubinius. So you can choose one of these implementations.
It can run under both Windows and Linux.
Gem dependencies will be installed during installation of this gem.
- Ruby 1.9.3 or above
- Sqlite3
- Mysql(MariaDB)
Configuration
You can simply manipulate default configuration file by:
$ rbitter configure
Put your customized config.json to one of below locations.
- ./config.json (current folder)
- ./.rbitter/config.json (current folder)
XMLRPC handlers
To get XMLRPC handlers, visit Rbitter XMLRPC.
You can find the document to write your own XMLRPC handler.
Set up and run
With config.json,
- Get Twitter token and copy them properly.
- Choose preferred ActiveRecord backend.
- Modify default location where Twitter images are downloaded.
- Configure XMLRPC server
- Start by typing:
$ rbitter serve
TODO
- Streaming Client
- Saving JSON dump
- XMLRPC
- Receiving direct messages
Issue report or feature request
It's recommended to open an issue even it seemed too small. A small flaw may result in instability or bad situation. So every feature requests/bug reports are welcomed.
Please attach stack trace, Ruby version, Rbitter version, and detail description.
If you installed from RubyGems, please report with Git tag. Git tag is your gem version.
Application Versioning
Rbitter follows Sementic Versioning 2.0.
Disclaimer
Rbitter is intended for personal usage. Archived data should not be shared over Internet. Please keep them secure and safe, and protect privacy.
Using sqlite3, please set permission to 0700 so that other users can not read your database file. Using mysql2, please take care of DB access privilege.
Rbitter is not responsible for integrity of data. That is, Some tweets will be dropped accidently due to Twitter API problems or your network problems. The application does its best to recover from those problems. If you find Rbitter couldn't recover even after they're resolved, please make an issue report.