Twitter4R

• Project Website - http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org
• Mailing List - http://groups.google.com/group/twitter4r-users
• Issues - http://github.com/twitter4r/twitter4r-core/issues

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.

gem install twitter4r

Add the twitter4r dependency to your Gemfile:

gem 'twitter4r', :require => 'twitter'

Set your OAuth consumer key and token like so:

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.oauth_consumer_token = CONSUMER_KEY_HERE
  config.oauth_consumer_secret = CONSUME_SECRET_HERE
end

To create a client object with access tokens:

  client = Twitter::Client.new(:oauth_access => {
      :key => ACCESS\_KEY, :secret => ACCESS\_SECRET
    }
  client.status(:post, "Your awesome less than 140 characters tweet goes here!!! #with #hashtag #goodness")

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

• Configuration API
• Friendship API
• Messaging API
• Model API
• Status API
• Timeline API
• User API

Library supports:

• OAuth support for authentication with the Twitter.com REST and Search APIs
• identi.ca API access
• Customizability of API endpoints such that any Twitter.com compliant API can be accessed (not just Twitter.com and identi.ca's)
• Uses lightweight native JSON under the hood as opposed to heavyweight XML parsing (which is what other Ruby Twitter client libraries use)

Twitter.com REST API coverage includes:

• Status posting and retrieving
• User information
• Profile updates and retrieval
• Favorites add, remove, retrieve
• Direct messaging post, remove, read
• Friendship adding, removing, blocking
• Geolocation embedding inside of statuses and reading from statuses
• Rate limit status access
• Trends retrieval and trend location querying

Twitter.com Search API coverage includes:

• Searching with various options

• Susan Potter

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.

• 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)