twitter timeline

gistfile1.txt

# usr/bin/ruby
# encoding: UTF-8
require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'json'

#cmd = 'curl --basic --user username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json'
url = 'http://twitk.com/k/statuses/friends_timeline.json'

buffer = open(url, :http_basic_authentication => ["username", "password"]).read

result = JSON.parse(buffer)
result.each do |tweet|
  puts tweet['user']['name'] + ': ' + tweet['text']
end