gistfile1.txt

require 'open-uri'
require 'nokogiri'

def get_followers_from_page(url)
  page, followers = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url).read()), []
  user_items = page.xpath("//table[@class='user-item']")
  user_items.each do |user_item|
    nickname = user_item.xpath(".//a[@data-scribe-action='profile_click']/@href").first.to_s
    nickname = nickname[1,nickname.size]
    splits = nickname.split('?')
    nickname = splits[0]
    followers << nickname
  end
  p page.xpath("//div[@class='w-button-more']/a/@href").first.value
  followers
end

def select_followers_from(nickname, n=10)
  result = []
  base_url = "https://mobile.twitter.com/#{nickname}/followers"
  followers = get_followers_from_page(base_url)
  n.times do
    result << followers.sample
  end
  result
end

select_followers_from( 'xgurix', 1 )