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Finds the source of a retweet chain.
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| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'httparty' | |
| def next_tweet tweet_url | |
| response = HTTParty.get tweet_url | |
| tweet_link = Nokogiri::XML( response ).xpath( "//a/@data-expanded-url" ).first | |
| p tweet_link.value unless tweet_link.nil? | |
| end | |
| def find_source url | |
| tweet = next_tweet( url ) | |
| tweet ? find_source( tweet ) : url | |
| end | |
| find_source "https://twitter.com/waneka/status/433519520842395648" |
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def find_source url
another_tweet = next_tweet url
another_tweet ? find_source another_tweet : url
end