sutto / birdgrinder

An evented twitter client, specifically built to make it easy to build bots and the like. Inc. built in streaming / search support

BirdGrinder - an evented ruby twitter library

BirdGrinder is my attempt at an evented twitter library / "framework" for ruby. Based on Perennial and very much influenced by Marvin's design, even to the level of sharing a lot of code, BirdGrinder is designed to make it simple and easy to create twitter bots / clients that react to events such as processing searches / streams, automatically processing mentions and direct messages.

One example of this usage is for a twitter game - BirdGrinder was originally written for use in Nick Plante's upcoming werewolf game and has been used to write a couple of other tools (e.g. a real time updating twitter stream for a conference).

To find out more, please read docs/introduction.md

Contributing

I welcome any and all contributions, but please keep a few things in mind:

• I have the right to decide what gets pulled in.
• If you maintain your own version, please bump it in separate commits to actual functionality.
• I'm an idiot because I haven't written tests yet. Sorry!

Any Questions?

Contact [email protected] or ping SuttoL on Freenode. Also, feel free to message me here on GitHub.

birdgrinder's Issues

The streaming_request is broken following OAuth modifications

The request on line 48 of streaming_request.rb no longer exist because you inlined the object creation

http = EventMachine::HttpRequest.new(full_url).send(type, http_options(type, request))

Either get rid of request (in the called method too) or put back the instantiation on the previous line like before.