Sample ruby twitter client script for GFW

twiget.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'kconv'

require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'pit'
require 'ruby-growl'

max_count = ARGV.shift.to_i

config = Pit.get("twitter", :require => {
  "username" => "your twittername",
  "password" => "your password"
})

Net::HTTP.version_1_2
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/statuses/friends_timeline.json')
req.basic_auth config["username"], config["password"]

proxy_host = ENV["proxy_host"]
proxy_port = ENV["proxy_port"]

Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host, proxy_port).start('twitter.com') {|http|
  res = http.request(req)
  
  growl = Growl.new("localhost", "Simple twitter client", ["Message", "Error"])

  if res.code == '200'
    result = JSON.parser.new(res.body).parse()
    result.length.times do |i|
      exit 0 if i >= max_count      
      puts screen_name = result[i]["user"]["screen_name"]
      puts text = result[i]["text"]
      growl.notify "Message", "#{screen_name}", "#{text}"
      sleep 1
    end
  else
    growl.notify "Error", "Error occurd", "Can not get messages"
  end
}