Twitter Scraping Job for Dashing

twitter_scraper.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

# Retrieves publicly available tweets for a twitter account.
# This job is intended to be used with the comments widget.

# Config
# ------
twitter_username = ENV['TWITTER_USERNAME'] || '[TWITTER USERNAME]' # Do not include the @ symbol
twitter_avatar   = '[TWITTER AVATAR URL]' # e.g. https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/...

SCHEDULER.every '5m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
  html   = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://twitter.com/#{twitter_username}"))
  tweets = html.css('.tweet-text').map do |tweet|
    { name: "@#{twitter_username}", body: tweet.text, avatar: twitter_avatar }
  end
  send_event 'tweets', comments: tweets
end