Automaticly find Twitter users

find_twitter_users.rb

# encoding: UTF-8

require 'twitter'

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
  config.consumer_secret = YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
  config.oauth_token = YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN
  config.oauth_token_secret = YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET
end

# input all the names here or grab them from your database or somewhere else.
names = ['Dennis Paagman', 'Springest', 'Github']

names.each do |name|
  begin
    @twitter = Twitter.user_search(name)
    if @twitter
      if twitter_user = @twitter.first
        puts "#{twitter_user[:name]}: #{twitter_user[:screen_name]}"
        
        # Save your data here, write it to a database or something.
      end
    end

  rescue Twitter::Unauthorized
    puts "Not authorized. Please check the Twitter credentials at the top of the script."
    break

  rescue Twitter::BadRequest => e
    puts "Hit rate limit. Continuing scraping at #{e.ratelimit_reset}"
    sleep e.retry_after
    retry

  rescue Exception => e
    puts "Something else went wrong:"
    puts e.message
  end
end