Small script to find Twitter users based on names in database

gistfile1.rb

# encoding: UTF-8

require 'twitter'

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '......'
  config.consumer_secret = '......'
  config.oauth_token = '......'
  config.oauth_token_secret =  '......'
end

institutes.each do |institute|
  begin
    puts "Searching for #{institute[:name]}"
  
    @twitter = Twitter.user_search(institute[:name])
    if @twitter
      twitter_user = @twitter.first
      if twitter_user
        puts "\t#{twitter_user[:name]}: #{twitter_user[:screen_name]}"
        # Save your data here
      end
    end
  rescue Exception => e
    puts "continuing scraping at #{e.ratelimit_reset}"
    sleep (e.retry_after == 0 ? 15 : e.retry_after)
    retry
  end
  sleep 15
end