Typho Twitter¶ ↑
What¶ ↑
This is a RubyGem to simplify sending parallel batches of requests to the Twitter API in Ruby applications.
It is based on Typhoeus and OAuth.
It is currently a work in progress. Comments, suggestions, and feedback are welcome and encouraged.
Why¶ ↑
Some applications need to send lots of individual requests to the Twitter API to do things such as retrieve details from a group of users, or get the recent statuses for a group of users.
For a sizable number of requests, doing this serially is extremely slow. TyphoTwitter lets you perform a batch of like requests in parallel, drastically reducing the amount of time it takes to perform the same number of requests.
Installing¶ ↑
sudo gem install typho-twitter
The source code is hosted on GitHub: github.com/capitalthought/typho-twitter
The basics¶ ↑
Demonstration of usage¶ ↑
Create a TyphoTwitter instance. If you need to authorize:
@typho_twitter = TyphoTwitter.new( :oauth=>{ :consumer_key=>'XXXXXXX', :consumer_secret=>'YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY', :token=>'XXXXXXX-YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY', :secret=>'ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ', :site=>'http://example.com' } ) screen_name_array = %w[02Blazer 080808news 0Amna0 100PercentTX 1043LaQueBuena 1049TheHorn 1070thefan 1070WINA 10jackrussel 10rWfe 10tonreverb 1337studios 141chars 1450whtc 1660THEFAN 16mthsapart 1968mike 1capplegate 1LUVMRWAY 1MattHopkins 1OneStone 1realestateteam 1stbassguitar 1stBrand 1ststepsmoney 1TeeTime 1weightliftin 2001MUgrad 203klender 20thCFlicks] responses = @typho_twitter.get_users_show( screen_name_array ) responses.each do |response| puts response.to_s end
More Information¶ ↑
How to submit patches¶ ↑
The source code is hosted on the GitHub: github.com/capitalthought/typho-twitter
To submit a patch, please fork the typho-twitter project and create a patch with tests. Once you’re happy with it send a pull request and post a message to the google group.
License¶ ↑
This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.
Contact¶ ↑
Comments are welcome. Send an email to me at typho-twitter@wdd.oib.com