From: Jesse Crockett <tefflox@...>
Date: 2009-07-15T10:15:56+09:00
Subject: Trying to parse stream.twitter.com, please help.

I'm having no luck working on this, and it's my first attempt at such a
process.  Here is the code as it is now.  When I run the file, I'm
testing it against my own twitter account, and I see in the '% Received'
it gets about 1100 bytes each time I update, but nothing else works
beyond that.

This is a job qualifier, any help is appreciated.
[code]
require "rubygems"
require "json"

BASE = "http://stream.twitter.com/"
MODE = "follow.json"
USER = "-u----------:-------"

USERS = [26079932]


IO.popen("curl -d @following #{BASE}#{MODE} #{USER}") do |io|
  begin
    while line = io.gets
      status = line.length > 2 ? JSON.parse(line) : nil
      if status
        if status["user"]["screen_name"] == 'my_screen_name'
          File.new("update_file", 'a').puts "hello"
          #`echo \"#{status[:user][:id]}\" >> update_file`
        end
      end
    end
  rescue
    # connection lost
  end
end
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