My twitter utils

config.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

module MyTwitterFavUtils
  FORMAT = 'tsv'
  SEP = "\t"
  FILE = 'fav-tweets.' + FORMAT
  BACKUP_SUFFIX = '~'
  TRUNCATE_LEN = 20
end

empty-favs.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
$VERBOSE = true
=begin
Destroy all you favs on twitter.
=end

require 'rubygems'
require 'faster_csv'
require 'twitter'

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'config')
include MyTwitterFavUtils

class String
  PACK_UTF8 = 'U*'
  def truncate_utf8 len
    self.unpack( PACK_UTF8 )[0, len].pack PACK_UTF8
  end
end

#Get oauth tokens. Change as you like.
Twitter.configure {|cfg|
  ckey = File.readlines( 'ctoken.txt' ).map(&:chomp)
  cfg.consumer_key, cfg.consumer_secret = ckey
  username = ARGV[0]
  akey = File.readlines( "atoken-#{username}.txt").map(&:chomp)
  cfg.oauth_token, cfg.oauth_token_secret = akey
}

FasterCSV.foreach( FILE, :col_sep => SEP ){|row|
  status_id = row[0].to_i
  next if status_id < 1 #Maybe non-existing tweet.
  begin
    Twitter.favorite_destroy status_id
  rescue Twitter::Error => err
    warn err.message
  else
    puts "Successfully destroyed fav: '#{row[2]}: #{row[4].truncate_utf8 TRUNCATE_LEN}'"
  end
}

save-favos.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby -wKu
# vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
=begin
Download your favorite tweets.
=end

require 'pp'
require 'fileutils'
require 'rubygems'
require 'faster_csv'
require 'twitter'

require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'config')
include MyTwitterFavUtils

#constants
CRLF = "\x0d\x0a"
NEW_LINE = "\n"
AT = 'created_at'
USER = 'user'
NAME = 'screen_name'
ID = 'id_str'
WHAT = 'text'
username = ARGV[0]

pagenum = 1

#prepare the output file
puts "Creating a #{format} to output..."
begin
  FileUtils.copy FILE, FILE + BACKUP_SUFFIX
  puts "Backuped #{file}."
rescue Errno::ENOENT
  puts "File #{file} doesn't exist... Creating."
end
out = FasterCSV.open file, 'w', :col_sep => SEP
END{ out.close }

out << [ 'status_' + ID, AT, NAME, 'user_' + ID, WHAT ]
loop do
  favs = Twitter.favorites( username, :page => pagenum )
  break if favs.empty?
  favs.each do|tweet|
    id = tweet[ID]
    at = tweet[AT]
    by = tweet[USER][NAME]
    by_id = tweet[USER][ID]
    what = tweet[WHAT].gsub( CRLF, NEW_LINE)
    out << [ id, at, by, by_id, what ]
  end
  pagenum += 1
end