Track tweets on some topic

track_tweets.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'tweetstream'
require 'date'

TweetStream.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = '<your key>'
  config.consumer_secret = '<your secret>'
  config.oauth_token = '<your token>'
  config.oauth_token_secret = '<your token secret>'
  config.auth_method = :oauth
  config.parser   = :json_gem
end

# Change the words you want to track
TweetStream::Client.new.track('football', 'baseball', 'soccer', 'cricket') do |status|
  begin
    # The Tweet id
    id = status.id
    # The text of the tweet, with new lines (returns) replaced by spaces
    txt = status.text.gsub(/\n/," ")
    # The date of the tweet, printed out in a slightly more useful form for
    # our purposes
    d = DateTime.parse(status.created_at).strftime("%Y-%m-%d\t%H:%M:%S")
    puts [id,txt,d].join("\t")
  rescue Exception => e
    puts "!!! Error: #{e.to_s}"
  end
end