twitter.scala

import java.io._
import java.net.{URLConnection, URL}
import scala.xml._


val username = "alcides"
val password = "youwish"


val conn = new URL("http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml").openConnection
val encoding = Base64Converter.encode( username + ":" + password )
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding)


def user(st:Node):String = ((st \ "user" last) \ "screen_name" last) text
def body(st:Node):String = (st \ "text" last) text

(XML.load(conn.getInputStream) \\ "status").map {
	st => user(st) + " said: " + body(st)
}.foreach{
	line => println(line)
}