Twitter Search with API v1.1

README.md

Description

Simple Dashing widget (and associated job) to display a Twitter search. Uses Twitter API v1.1.

##Dependencies

twitter

Add it to dashing's gemfile:

gem 'twitter'

and run bundle install. Everything should work now :)

##Usage

Put the twitter-search.rb file in your /jobs folder.

To include the widget in a dashboard, add the following snippet to the dashboard layout file:

<li data-row="1" data-col="1" data-sizex="1" data-sizey="1">
  <div data-id="twitter_mentions" data-view="Comments" data-title="Search Tweets" style="background-color: #71388a"></div>
</li>

##Settings

You'll need to add the twitter configs for your desired account to the job.

Tweets are fetched every 10 minutes, but you can change that by editing the job schedule.

twitter-search.rb

require 'twitter'

Twitter.configure do |config|
  config.consumer_key = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY'
  config.consumer_secret = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET'
  config.oauth_token = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN'
  config.oauth_token_secret = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET'
end

search_term = URI::encode('#todayilearned')

SCHEDULER.every '10m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
  tweets = Twitter.search("#{search_term}").results
  if tweets
    tweets.map! do |tweet|
      { name: tweet.user.name, body: tweet.text, avatar: tweet.user.profile_image_url_https }
    end
    send_event('twitter_mentions', comments: tweets)
  end
end

Works well for me but I can't figure out how to change the search topic. Currently it only finds #todayilearned. I tried changing this to line in the "twitter.rb" file but I still get the same twitter stuff.
search_term = URI::encode('#bettercallsaul'))
TIA.

Hi @paulbz, it appears that the content of tweet.user.profile_image_url_https has changed and does now contains more data. I have modified the script like that:

avatar: tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.scheme + "://" + tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.host + tweet.user.profile_image_url_https.path

Hope it helps.

Has something changed recently?
Was originally getting Cannot authenticate errors on the Twitter Widget that came with dashing, switched to your version. now getting this error:

twitter-search.rb:3:in <top (required)>': undefined methodconfigure' for Twitter:Module (NoMethodError)

And dashing fails to start - any ideas?

I've the same problem as @OliPassey and can't find where it come from

gem 'twitter' doesn't work. Is this project outdated and not functional or did it ever work?