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Twitter/Facebook API for Ruby

I want to write a 开发者_StackOverflow中文版Ruby application through which:

  1. I can submit tweets to twitter.
  2. I can submit a post to facebook.
  3. I can manage real-time stats of tweets

Is there any twitter/facebook api for Ruby?


I use the Twitter gem and am quite happy with it.

For Facebook, there is the Facebooker gem.


Streams of tweets:

Tweetmon is a great gem for keeping real-time track of tweets. Here's an example of using it to get a stream of tweets on a specific keyword

 #!/usr/local/bin/ruby 

 if ARGV.size==1
   keyword = ARGV.shift
 else
   puts 'tweetmon usage: tweetmon <keyword>'
   exit 1
 end

 require 'yaml'
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'tweetstream'

 config = YAML::load(File.open(File.expand_path('~/.twitter')))
 user =config['username']
 password =config['password']

 TweetStream::Client.new(user,password).track(keyword) do |status|  
   puts "[#{status.created_at}-#{status.user.screen_name}] #{status.text}"
 end  

To use this gem you need: gem sources -a http://gems.github.com gem install intridea-tweetstream

To submit a tweet is just a HTTP POST - doesn't need any extra libraries to do this.


The Twitter API is a RESTful web service. It's completely language agnostic. Use whatever language you want.

Not sure about Facebook.


Two more libraries that didn't get mentioned yet:

  • twitter4r: http://twitter4r.rubyforge.org/
  • Twibot: http://cjohansen.no/en/ruby/twibot_a_microframework_for_twitter_bots_in_ruby


If you're inclined to retain more control over how you use the Twitter and Facebook APIs you can use the Wrest gem.

Take a look at the facebook (http://is.gd/bJspX) and twitter (http://is.gd/bJsqV) examples.

Also, while both the Twitter and Facebook APIs are HTTP APIs, they are not RESTful despite their claims to the contrary.


I would use this gem, it's really helpful https://github.com/moomerman/twitter_oauth

or just gem install twitter_oauth


MiniFB https://github.com/appoxy/mini_fb is excellent for Facebook API. But in both APIs you can do everything through HTTPParty and OAuth.

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