twitter-crystal

A library to access the Twitter API using Crystal

This is a fork of twitter-crystal which was originally written by Erik Michaels-Ober.

The original repository is no longer maintained and does not work with the latest Crystal version.

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  twitter-crystal:
    github: mamantoha/twitter-crystal

In your terminal run:

shards

This will get the latest code from this github repository and copy it to a lib directory. All that's left is to require it:

require "twitter-crystal"

Usage

After the installation, you can use twitter-crystal by creating a client object:

require "twitter-crystal"

consumer_key        = "your consumer key"
consumer_secret     = "your consumer secret"
access_token        = "your access token"
access_token_secret = "your access token secret "

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

All the necessary keys can be generated by creating a Twitter application.

After configuring a client, you can do the following things.

Post/Delete a tweet

# post a tweet
client.update("Good morning")

# delete a tweet
client.destroy_status(897099923128172545)

Fetch a particular Tweet by ID

client.status(950491199454044162)

Follow a user(by screen name or user_id)

client.follow("kenta_s_dev")
client.follow(776284343173906432)

Unfollow a user(by screen name or user_id)

client.unfollow("kenta_s_dev")
client.unfollow(776284343173906432)

Fetch a list of followers with profile details (by screen name or user ID, or by implicit authenticated user)

client.followers("crystallanguage")
client.followers(15)
client.followers

Fetch a list of friends with profile details (by screen name or user ID, or by implicit authenticated user)

client.friends("crystallanguage")
client.friends(15)
client.friends

Search users

client.user_search("Crystal lang") # returns maximum of 20 users

Fetch users by user_id/screen_name

client.users("kenta_s_dev")

# fetch multiple users(maximum is 100)
client.users("sferik", "yukihiro_matz", "dhh")

Fetch followers' IDs

client.follower_ids

Fetch followees' IDs

# In Twitter API documents, followees are called 'friends'.
client.friend_ids

You can also call Twitter's API directly using the get or post method

client.get("/1.1/users/show.json", { "screen_name" => "sferik" })
client.post("/1.1/statuses/update.json", { "status" => "The world is your oyster." })

Streaming

Configuration works just like Twitter::REST::Client

consumer_key        = "your consumer key"
consumer_secret     = "your consumer secret"
access_token        = "your access token"
access_token_secret = "your access token secret "

client = Twitter::Streaming::Client.new(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret)

Stream a random sample of all tweets

client.sample do |object|
  puts object.text if object.is_a?(Twitter::Tweet)
end

Stream mentions of coffee or tea

topics = ["coffee", "tea"]
client.filter({"track" => topics.join(",")}) do |object|
  puts object.text if object.is_a?(Twitter::Tweet)
end

If you want to call the API directly, refer to the API reference.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/mamantoha/twitter-crystal/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Pull Requests are very welcome

The goal of the project is to implement all methods to call Twitter REST API. There are a lot of things need to be done. Pull Requests are welcome :)

Contributors

• sferik Erik Michaels-Ober - creator
• kenta-s Kenta Shirai - maintainer
• mamantoha Anton Maminov - maintainer
• vladfaust Vlad Faust - Streaming API support