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

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.