Pulling Down a User's Twitter Feed

all_tweets.rb

require 'twitter'

class AllTweets

  attr_accessor :tweets

  def initialize(username, config)
    @username = username
    @config = config
    @tweets = []
    @max_id = nil
  end

  def client
    Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
      config.consumer_key        = @config[:consumer_key]
      config.consumer_secret     = @config[:consumer_secret]
      config.access_token        = @config[:access_token]
      config.access_token_secret = @config[:access_token_secret]
    end
  end

  def fetch
    options = {count: 200}
    options[:max_id] = @max_id if @max_id
    fetched_tweets = client.user_timeline(@username, options)
    fetched_tweets.each do |tweet|
      if @max_id.nil? || @max_id >= tweet.id
        @max_id = tweet.id - 1
      end
      @tweets.push(tweet.attrs.to_json)
    end

    if fetched_tweets.length == 0
      puts "Done, fetched #{@tweets.length} tweets"
      return @tweets
    else
      puts "Tweet Count: #{@tweets.length}"
      fetch
    end
  end

end


#-- Usage -----------------------------------------------------------------
config = {
  consumer_key:        "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
  consumer_secret:     "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET",
  access_token:        "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  access_token_secret: "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
}
all_tweets = AllTweets.new('twg', config)
all_tweets.fetch

all_tweets.tweets
#=> Returns an array of ~3200 JSON encoded tweets