Sample onthesides job

gistfile1.rb

# Fetch a list of words to search
# for on Twitter, and return the
# last ~10 people who used each.

# There's a bunch of libraries you
# can use. E.g. typhoeus for HTTP.
url = "https://raw.github.com/gist/123456"
watch = Typhoeus::Request.get url

# YAML, JSON, Nokogiri for XML, Base64...
list = YAML.load(watch.body).map do |word|
  res = { search: word, results: [] }
  
  # Various 3rd party APIs, like Twitter,
  # Facebook, GitHub, Foursquare...
  Twitter.search(
    word,
    count: 10,
    result_type: "recent"
  ).results.map do |status|
    res[:results].push status.from_user
  end
  res[:results].uniq!
  res
end

# on the sides also has an API, which
# you can use for logging data, or
# even creating new jobs from within!
Sides.log list