Ruby Twitter Array Issue

Question

I am new to Ruby and had a quick question.

I am trying to get all of the posts from a user's timeline, so I figured I would need to do a user_timeline api call to twitter and then filter out the posts manually. Then, while reading the Ruby Twitter documentation, I found this:

puts Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").first.text

...and that will return the post already parsed out.

Is there a way to get more than just the first post automatically parsed out like that, or is that just an array method for the first and last object in the array?

Thanks

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '11 at 16:01

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It looks like user_timeline just returns an array, so you ought to be able to use Ruby's normal array methods with it.

Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").each do |tweet|
    puts tweet
end

answered Oct 30 '11 at 16:01

ben author

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Code [golfing](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6962883/how-to-unflatten-a-ruby-array/6963422#6963422): `Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").each(&method(:puts))` – Andrew Grimm Oct 30 '11 at 22:15
but will that work for the tweet text only? how 'bout the more conventional `Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").each{|t| puts t.text}` – ben author Nov 02 '11 at 03:31

Dave Newton · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-31T14:31:53.943

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You need to iterate over each object.

Twitter.user_timeline("twitter_handle").each do |tweet|
    puts tweet.text
end

The first and last methods are just convenience methods on arrays.

edited Oct 31 '11 at 14:31

answered Oct 30 '11 at 16:02

Dave Newton

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@Rob Fixed; oops. (I like that Ben included a doc link, though.) – Dave Newton Oct 31 '11 at 14:32

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '11 at 16:02

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As you can see from source, Twitter::Client#user_timeline returns array from 20 most recent Twitter::Status, so that you can use up to 20 parsed records.

answered Oct 30 '11 at 16:02

WarHog

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