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Quick Ruby script to generate a Twitter search URL combining Tweets from multiple users
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "cgi"
BASE_URI = "https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets".freeze
if ARGV.empty?
puts "USAGE: tweeter_feed screenname1 [screenname2] ... [screennameN]"
exit 1
end
screen_names = ARGV.map do |arg|
screen_name = arg.strip
if screen_name.start_with?("@")
screen_name = screen_name[1..-1]
end
screen_name
end
query = screen_names.map { |sn| "from:#{sn}" }.join(" OR ")
puts "#{BASE_URI}&q=#{CGI.escape(query)}"
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