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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# This script performs an OAuth authorized POST with multipart encoding to 
# http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.json
# 
# This code is primarily taken from my Grackle library's implementation at
# http://github.com/hayesdavis/grackle
#
# RUNNING THIS WILL CHANGE AN ACCOUNT'S PROFILE IMAGE. BE CAREFUL.
#

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#These instructions are for <= 0.1.3. Newer versions of Grackle will have a more 
#fully-baked way of handling the Twitter API versions.

require 'grackle'

#Option 1: Just setup the hosts on your Grackle instance
#This will only change the hosts for this instance
client = Grackle::Client.new
client.api_hosts[:v1] = 'api.twitter.com/1'
client.api = :v1

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require 'rubygems'
require 'grackle'
require 'redis'

# Shows the list of mutual followers between two Twitter users using Redis
# sets and set intersections.
#
# Usage: 
#   ruby mutual_followers screen_name1 screen_name2 [reset]
# 

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client = Grackle::Client.new(:api=>:v1)
term = 'foo'

page = with_retry{client.search?(:q=>term,:rpp=>100)}
has_results = !page.results.empty?
while(has_results)
  # page.results has tweets in it
  unless page.next_page.nil?
    page = with_retry{client.search?(:q=>term, :rpp=>100, :page=>page.page+1, :max_id=>page.max_id)}
    has_results = !page.results.empty?

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Operation failed with the following exception: Connection reset by peer - send(2)
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongo-0.18/lib/../lib/mongo/connection.rb:503:in `send_message_on_socket'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongo-0.18/lib/../lib/mongo/connection.rb:209:in `send_message'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongo-0.18/lib/../lib/mongo/collection.rb:257:in `update'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongo-0.18/lib/../lib/mongo/collection.rb:179:in `save'

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client = Grackle::Client.new(:auth=>{:type=>:basic,:username=>SOME_USER,:password=>SOME_PASS},:ssl=>true)
# The ! means POST
client.direct_messages.new! :screen_name=>'hayesdavis', :text=>'testing'

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# Setup grackle to talk to flamingo
client = Grackle::Client.new
client.api_hosts[:flamingo] = "http://localhost:4711"
client.api = :flamingo

# Commence talking

# See what's being filtered
client.streams.filter?

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client = Grackle::Client.new(:auth=>{
  :type=>:oauth,
  :consumer_key=>'SOMECONSUMERKEYFROMTWITTER',       # Ids your app. "Consumer Key" on Twitter app page
  :consumer_secret=>'SOMECONSUMERTOKENFROMTWITTER',  # Your app's secret. "Consumer Secret" on Twitter app page
  :token=>'ACCESSTOKENACQUIREDONUSERSBEHALF',        # Ids a user. Most docs call this "access token".
  :token_secret=>'SUPERSECRETACCESSTOKENSECRET'      # Secret for a user. Often called "access token secret".
})

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## 
# Below is a template for implementing the "OAuth Dance" with Twitter using the Ruby OAuth gem in a Rails app.
# Ruby OAuth gem is required by grackle and is found here: http://github.com/oauth/oauth-ruby
## 

# Step 1: User clicks "Sign in with Twitter" button

# Step 2: User is routed to your controller action that looks like the method below

def start_oauth

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#First tweet on 21 Mar 2006 at 20:50:14.000 GMT (in ms)
TWEPOCH = 1288834974657 

#High 42 bytes are timestamp, low 22 are worker, datacenter and sequence bits
SHIFT = 22 

# Give it a snowflake id, it tells you what time it was created
# Will fail for very high ids because Ruby Time can only represent up to 
# Jan 18, 2038 at 19:14:07 UTC (max signed int in seconds since unix epoch)
def what_time?(id)