Basic twitter CLI to see what's going on

gistfile1.rb

require 'thor'
require 'twitter'
require 'httparty'

TWITTER_APP_KEY="rzlJX...."
TWITTER_APP_SECRET="euF5bI...."
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="17827...."
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="7NSXm..."

def print_user_info( u )
  t = "%-20s: %s\n"
  printf t, "Screenname", u.user_name
  printf t, "Full Name", u.name
  printf t, "Bio", u.description
  printf t, "Website", lookup_url( u.website.to_s )
  printf t, "Joined", u.created_at.strftime( "%Y-%m-%d" )
  printf t, "Location", u.location
  printf t, "Verified", u.verified?
  printf t, "Tweets", u.tweets_count
  printf t, "Followers", u.followers_count
  printf t, "Following", u.friends_count
  printf t, "Favorites count", u.favorites_count
end

def lookup_url( url )
  return nil if url.nil? || url == ""
  r = HTTParty.head url, { follow_redirects: false }
  r['location'] || url
end

class CLI < Thor
  desc "user SCREENAME", "Look up info for a specific user."
  def user( username )
    print_user_info client.user( "wschenk" )
  end

  desc "lookup URL", "Resolve a link"
  def lookup( url )
    puts lookup_url( url )
  end

  desc "limits", "Print out the current rate limits"
  def limits
    resp = client.get( "/1.1/application/rate_limit_status.json" )
    current_time = Time.now.to_i
    template = "   %-40s %5d remaining, resets in %3d seconds\n"
    resp.body[:resources].each do |category,resources|
      puts category.to_s
      resources.each do |resource,info|
        printf template, resource.to_s, info[:remaining], (info[:reset] - current_time)
      end
    end
  end
  
  desc "user_timeline", "Show the authenticated user's tweets"
  def user_timeline
    client.user_timeline.each do |tweet|
      puts "@#{tweet.user.user_name}:#{tweet.text}"
    end
  end

  desc "home_timeline", "Show the authenticated user's timeline"
  def home_timeline
    client.home_timeline.each do |tweet|
      puts "@#{tweet.user.user_name}:#{tweet.text}"
    end
  end

  desc "retweets", "Show the authenticated user's retweets"
  def retweets
    client.retweets_of_me.each do |tweet|
      puts "@#{tweet.user.user_name}:#{tweet.text}"
    end
  end

  desc "mentions", "Show the authenticated user's mentions"
  def mentions
    client.mentions.each do |tweet|
      puts "@#{tweet.user.user_name}:#{tweet.text}"
    end
  end


  desc "followers SCREENNAME", "Prints out all of the users followers"
  def followers( screenname )
    client.followers( screenname ).each do |u|
      printf( "@%-15s %-20s %s\n", u.user_name, u.name, u.description )
    end
  end

  desc "search STRING", "Shows all the tweets that match the string"
  options [:exact, :user_info]
  def search( string )
    string = "\"#{string}\"" if options[:exact]
    reach = 0
    client.search( string, count: 100 ).each do |t|
      puts "#{t.id}:#{t.created_at}:@#{t.user.user_name}:#{t.user.followers_count}:#{t.retweet_count}:#{t.text}"
      reach += t.user.followers_count
      if options[:user_info]
        print_user_info t.user if options[:user_info]
        puts
      end
    end
    puts "#{string} reached #{reach} people."
  end

  desc "filter TERMS", "Print out tweets that match the terms"
  def filter( terms )
    streaming_client.filter(track: terms) do |object|
      puts "@#{object.user.user_name}:#{object.text}" if object.is_a?(Twitter::Tweet)
    end
  end

  desc "listen", "Prints our the authenticated user's stream as it happens"
  def listen
    streaming_client.user do |object|
      case object
      when Twitter::Tweet
        puts "Tweet:@#{object.user.user_name}:#{object.text}"
      when Twitter::DirectMessage
        puts "DM:@#{object.sender.user_name}:#{object.text}"
      when Twitter::Streaming::StallWarning
        warn "Falling behind!"
      end
    end
  end

  private
  def client
    @client ||= Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
      config.consumer_key        = TWITTER_APP_KEY
      config.consumer_secret     = TWITTER_APP_SECRET
      config.access_token        = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
      config.access_token_secret = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
    end
  end

  def streaming_client
    @streaming_client ||= Twitter::Streaming::Client.new do |config|
      config.consumer_key        = TWITTER_APP_KEY
      config.consumer_secret     = TWITTER_APP_SECRET
      config.access_token        = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
      config.access_token_secret = TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
    end
  end
end

# Only run if the script is called directly
if __FILE__ == $0
  CLI.start( ARGV )
end