expand_tco.rb

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
Earthquake.init do
    output_filter do |item|
        next unless item['text']
        text = item["text"]
        text.scan( /http:\/\/t\.co\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+/ ).each do |url|
            uri = URI.parse url
            Net::HTTP::start( uri.host , uri.port ) do |connection|
                connection.request_get uri.path do |response|
                    text.gsub! url , response['Location']
                end
            end
        end
        text
    end
end

Ah, I actually came across a similar issue using this previously. The problem actually stems from the core code of earthquake, in that the tweet body of a retweet is stored in a different variable to a regular tweet, which is quite annoying! I ended up (probably foolishly) making a modification to the core of earthquake to fix the issue for myself, but the modification I've made to the existing gist should skirt the issue (though you may still see t.co in retweets).

Hi,

Thx for this plugin, it's working great. However I encounter the same erroneous behavior with the latest version of your script.
You said you modified the core, that would be interesting to know what you modified.

Here's the stacktrace that appear in the console for reference:

earthquake: [ERROR] can't convert nil into String
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:11:in `gsub!'
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:11:in `block (5 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1322:in `block (2 levels) in transport_request'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2671:in `reading_body'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1321:in `block in transport_request'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in `catch'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in `transport_request'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1293:in `request'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1195:in `request_get'
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:10:in `block (4 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:in `start'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:557:in `start'
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:9:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:7:in `each'
/Users/brice/.earthquake/plugin/expand_tco.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/earthquake-0.8.4/lib/earthquake/output.rb:36:in `call'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/earthquake-0.8.4/lib/earthquake/output.rb:36:in `block (2 levels) in puts_items'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/earthquake-0.8.4/lib/earthquake/output.rb:36:in `each'
/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/earthquake-0.8.4/lib/earthquake/output.rb:36:in `any?'

https://gist.github.com/3187216

Fixed problem I was getting with empty String with some links.

@adamtomecek Thank's a lot for this!

This solved the issue :)

https://gist.github.com/Kjwon15/9657129

I fixed it doesn't applied for item object.