The Twitter Ruby Gem
A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
Installation
gem install twitter
CLI
Looking for the Twitter command-line interface? It was removed from this
gem in version 0.5.0 and now exists as a separate project.
Documentation
Examples
https://github.com/sferik/twitter/tree/master/examples
Announcements
You should follow @gem on Twitter for announcements and updates about
this library.
Mailing List
Please direct questions about this library to the mailing list.
Apps Wiki
Does your project or organization use this gem? Add it to the apps
wiki!
Configuration
Twitter API v1.1 requires you to authenticate via OAuth, so you'll need to
register your application with Twitter. Once you've registered an
application, make sure to set the correct access level, otherwise you may see
the error:
Read-only application cannot POST
Your new application will be assigned a consumer key/secret pair and you will
be assigned an OAuth access token/secret pair for that application. You'll need
to configure these values before you make a request or else you'll get the
error:
Bad Authentication data
You can pass configuration options as a block to Twitter::REST::Client.new
.
client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do, config, config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
config.access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end
Usage Examples
After configuring a client
, you can do the following things.
Tweet (as the authenticated user)
client.update("I'm tweeting with @gem!")
Follow a user (by screen name or user ID)
client.follow("gem")
client.follow(213747670)
Fetch a user (by screen name or user ID)
client.user("gem")
client.user(213747670)
Fetch a cursored list of followers with profile details (by screen name or user ID, or by implicit authenticated user)
client.followers("gem")
client.followers(213747670)
client.followers
Fetch a cursored list of friends with profile details (by screen name or user ID, or by implicit authenticated user)
client.friends("gem")
client.friends(213747670)
client.friends
Fetch the timeline of Tweets by a user
client.user_timeline("gem")
client.user_timeline(213747670)
Fetch the timeline of Tweets from the authenticated user's home page
client.home_timeline
Fetch the timeline of Tweets mentioning the authenticated user
client.mentions_timeline
Fetch a particular Tweet by ID
client.status(27558893223)
Collect the three most recent marriage proposals to @justinbieber
client.search("to:justinbieber marry me", result_type: "recent").take(3).collect do, tweet, "#{tweet.user.screen_name}: #{tweet.text}"
end
Find a Japanese-language Tweet tagged #ruby (excluding retweets)
client.search("#ruby -rt", lang: "ja").first.text
For more usage examples, please see the full documentation.
Streaming
Site Streams are restricted to whitelisted accounts. To apply for access,
follow the steps in the Site Streams documentation. User
Streams do not require prior approval.
Configuration works just like Twitter::REST::Client
client = Twitter::Streaming::Client.new do, config, config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
config.access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end
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
Stream tweets, events, and direct messages for the authenticated user
client.user do, object, case object
when Twitter::Tweet
puts "It's a tweet!"
when Twitter::DirectMessage
puts "It's a direct message!"
when Twitter::Streaming::StallWarning
warn "Falling behind!"
end
end
An object
may be one of the following:
Twitter::Tweet
Twitter::DirectMessage
Twitter::Streaming::DeletedTweet
Twitter::Streaming::Event
Twitter::Streaming::FriendList
Twitter::Streaming::StallWarning
Ads
We recommend using the Twitter Ads SDK for Ruby to interact with the Twitter Ads API.
Object Graph
This entity-relationship diagram is generated programatically. If you add or
remove any Twitter objects, please regenerate the ERD with the following
command:
bundle exec rake erd
Supported Ruby Versions
This library aims to support and is tested against the following Ruby
versions:
- Ruby 2.4
- Ruby 2.5
- Ruby 2.6
- Ruby 2.7
If something doesn't work on one of these versions, it's a bug.
This library may inadvertently work (or seem to work) on other Ruby versions,
however support will only be provided for the versions listed above.
If you would like this library to support another Ruby version or
implementation, you may volunteer to be a maintainer. Being a maintainer
entails making sure all tests run and pass on that implementation. When
something breaks on your implementation, you will be responsible for providing
patches in a timely fashion. If critical issues for a particular implementation
exist at the time of a major release, support for that Ruby version may be
dropped.
Versioning
This library aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. Violations
of this scheme should be reported as bugs. Specifically, if a minor or patch
version is released that breaks backward compatibility, that version should be
immediately yanked and/or a new version should be immediately released that
restores compatibility. Breaking changes to the public API will only be
introduced with new major versions. As a result of this policy, you can (and
should) specify a dependency on this gem using the Pessimistic Version
Constraint with two digits of precision. For example:
spec.add_dependency 'twitter', '~> 6.0'
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Erik Berlin, John Nunemaker, Wynn Netherland, Steve Richert, Steve Agalloco.
See LICENSE for details.