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Get twitter embed widget's ID dynamically
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class TwitterWidgetIdExtractor | |
WIDGET_SETTING_URL = "https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/new/user?screen_name=" | |
SIGNIN_URL = "https://twitter.com/login" | |
attr_accessor :screen_name, :twitter_username, :twitter_password | |
def initialize(screen_name, twitter_username, twitter_password) | |
@screen_name = screen_name | |
@twitter_username = twitter_username | |
@twitter_password = twitter_password | |
end | |
def get_widget_id | |
signin | |
open_widget_page | |
extract_id | |
end | |
def signin | |
page = agent.get SIGNIN_URL | |
page.form_with(action: "https://twitter.com/sessions") do |form| | |
form.field_with(name: 'session[username_or_email]').value = twitter_username | |
form.field_with(name: 'session[password]').value = twitter_password | |
end.submit | |
end | |
def open_widget_page | |
page = agent.get(WIDGET_SETTING_URL+screen_name) | |
@widget_response = page.form_with(id: 'widget-form').submit | |
end | |
def extract_id | |
@widget_response.search("#code")[0].children[1].attributes['data-widget-id'].value | |
end | |
def agent | |
unless @agent | |
@agent = Mechanize.new | |
end | |
@agent | |
end | |
end |
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USAGE
TwitterWidgetIdExtractor.new('rubyonrails', 'your twitter username or email', 'your twitter password').get_widget_id
ENJOY hacking :D