follow wefollow

wefollow.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# script to extract and follow users from wefollow directory
# example:
# $ ./wefollow.rb iphonedev
# this will extract users from http://wefollow.com/tag/iphonedev
# and add them to your 'following' list

tag = ARGV[0] || exit

# to install chirpy:
# $ git clone git://github.com/ashrewdmint/chirpy.git
# $ cd chirpy
# $ gem build chirpy.gemspec
# $ sudo gem install chirpy-x.x.x.gem

require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'
require 'chirpy'

# you need to provide your twitter's username and password
# create config.yaml :
#   username: <username>
#   password: <password>

config = YAML::load(File.open('config.yaml'))
username = config['username']
password = config['password']

puts
puts "[*] Parsing WeFollow and following"
puts "username: "+username
puts "tag: "+tag
puts

url = "http://wefollow.com/tag/#{tag}"

users = []
Hpricot(open(url)).search("div.main-info h3 a").each do |u|
  users << u.innerHTML
end

chirpy = Chirpy.new(username,password)

friends = []
chirpy.friends.search('user').each do |u|
  friends << u.at('screen_name').innerHTML
end

users -= friends
users.delete(username)
users.uniq!

puts "targets"

count_added = 0
users.each do |u|
  chirpy.create_friendship(u)
  count_added += 1
  puts "%-2d %s" % [count_added,u]
end
puts

count_friends = chirpy.friends.search('user').count
puts "#{username} following #{count_friends} users (#{count_added} added)"

puts