tweet-words 0.1.0

data/lib/tweet-words.rb

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+# The program takes a username and number of latest tweets
+# to be considered. It then reads the latest 'n' tweets for user
+# and extracts all the words from them.
+# The program finally sorts the words in order of frequency of occurrence and prints them.
+#
+# Author:: Himani Ahuja
+# Email:: himani.ahuja@sv.cmu.edu
+#
+
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'httparty'
+
+class TweetWords
+	include HTTParty
+	format :json
+    
+    # This method takes the parameters of the userName and number of tweets to be parsed
+	# and calls the methods to get the tweets and extract words from them. It then sorts
+	# the words in decreasing order of frequencies and prints the word list.
+    
+	def self.topWords(userName, maximumNumberOfTweets)
+    
+		tweets = topTweets(userName, maximumNumberOfTweets)
+		wordSet = findTopWords(tweets)
+
+		puts "Top words in descending order of frequency: "
+
+		wordSet.sort_by { |word, count| count }.reverse.each do |wrd|
+		puts "#{wrd[0]}"
+
+		end
+		return ' '
+	end
+
+
+	# This method gets top 'n' tweets from Twitter as requested by the user.
+	# Twitter API only returns 20 most recent statuses posted by the user. Thus, this method
+	# invokes the request multiple times until the requested number is reached.
+
+	def self.topTweets(screen_name, maxNumber)
+
+		count = 0
+		id = 0
+		response = Array.new(1000)
+
+		begin
+
+			responseFromTwitter = getTweets(screen_name, id)
+
+			#responseFromTwitter.parsed_response.each_with_index do |elem, index|
+			responseFromTwitter.parsed_response.each do |elem|
+
+				response[count] = elem['text']
+				count = count + 1
+
+				id = Integer(elem['id']) - 1   # storing max_id to be used in subsequent calls
+
+				if count >=maxNumber
+					break
+				end
+			end
+		end while count < maxNumber
+
+		return response
+	end
+
+
+	# This method gets top tweets from Twitter by making an API call via HTTParty.
+	# The parameters passed are the 'screen_name' which is screen name of the user
+	# for whom to return results for and 'max_id' which returns results with an ID
+	# less than (that is, older than) or equal to the specified ID. The method returns
+	# the top 20 tweets as 'responseTweets'.
+
+	def self.getTweets(screen_name, max=0)
+
+		parameters = {:screen_name => screen_name }
+
+		if max > 0
+			parameters[:max_id] = max
+		end
+
+		responseTweets = get('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json', :query => parameters )
+		return responseTweets
+
+	end
+
+
+	# This method splits the tweet strings into words, counts each word's frequency and returns the word set.
+
+	def self.findTopWords(strArray)
+
+		countOfWords = Hash.new
+
+		strArray.each do |str|
+			if str.nil?
+				next
+			end
+
+			# strips the string
+			strippedString = str.gsub(/[^0-9A-Za-z]/, ' ')
+
+			# splits the string into words
+			splitString = strippedString.split(" ")
+
+			# count frequency of words.
+			splitString.each do |word|
+				if countOfWords.has_key?(word)
+					countOfWords[word] += 1
+					else
+					countOfWords[word] = 1
+				end
+			end
+		end
+		return countOfWords
+	end
+end
+
+
+# Sample invocation of the class for a particular user. Uncomment and run.
+# TweetWords.topWords('justinbieber', 1000)
+
+

metadata

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+--- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
+name: tweet-words
+version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+  version: 0.1.0
+  prerelease: 
+platform: ruby
+authors:
+- Himani Ahuja
+autorequire: 
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+date: 2012-06-08 00:00:00.000000000Z
+dependencies: []
+description: This is the gem to sort and print the words in a given twitter user’s
+  last 'n' tweets sorted by frequency of use.
+email: himani.ahuja@sv.cmu.edu
+executables: []
+extensions: []
+extra_rdoc_files: []
+files:
+- lib/tweet-words.rb
+homepage: http://rubygems.org/gems/tweet-words
+licenses: []
+post_install_message: 
+rdoc_options: []
+require_paths:
+- lib
+required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  none: false
+  requirements:
+  - - ! '>='
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+      version: '0'
+required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
+  none: false
+  requirements:
+  - - ! '>='
+    - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
+      version: '0'
+requirements: []
+rubyforge_project: 
+rubygems_version: 1.8.10
+signing_key: 
+specification_version: 3
+summary: Top words in a persons top 'n' tweets
+test_files: []