A simple Ruby script to connect to Twitter's streaming API and return tweets matching a search term in real time.

firehose.rb

# Tweet Stream. Uses the 'tweetstream' gem.
# Asks for a keyword, and monitors tweet for that keyword.

require 'tweetstream'

# Ask for keyword.
print "Keyword: "
keyword = gets.chomp()

TweetStream.configure do |config|
	config.consumer_key 		= 'YOUR KEY HERE'
	config.consumer_secret 		= 'YOUR SECRET HERE'
	config.oauth_token 		= 'OAUTH TOKEN HERE'
	config.oauth_token_secret 	= 'OAUTH TOKEN SECRET HERE'
	config.auth_method		= :oauth
end

puts "Connecting to Twitter..\n"
client = TweetStream::Client.new

client.on_error do |message|
	puts message
end

client.on_inited do
	puts "Connected to Twitter!\n"
end

client.track(keyword) do |status|
	puts "@#{status.user.screen_name}: #{status.text}"
	puts
end