# Trying to parse stream.twitter.com, please help **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 15, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113 "2009-07-15T03:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/1 "2009-07-15T03:15:50Z")
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. ```auto 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 ``` ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/2 "2009-07-15T03:38:21Z")
My god how low has the world gotten - it’s one thing for a kid to beg for code to get a high school grade in a class they probably don’t care about - but when an adult actually sticks up their hand in a room of professionals and begs for assistance to cheat a company out of money what the hell have we become. If you cannot perform the job (and can’t even figure out how to google the answer at least) then please have the decency to not steal the time and money of the company who you are trying to steal from. John W Higgins ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/3 "2009-07-15T03:51:37Z")
That’s very assuming. Good job, you’re typical. ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/4 "2009-07-15T03:55:57Z")
A man of such integrity as John W Higgins would surely code in the middle of Wichita for $10/hr and have an open case with SRS Vocational Rehab. How about it, Higgs? ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/5 "2009-07-15T04:05:48Z")
My sincerest sympathy (I can’t think of a better term here but I mean no disrespect), on whatever condition/situation placed you in the situation that required any form of rehab. However, clearly if one looked at your original request it’s a very different situation then what you now state. Maybe in the future when you make a request that clearly could be viewed as a negative request you’ll put a little more context around it so it doesn’t look like you are doing something dishonest. Best of luck to you and your family! John W Higgins ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/6 "2009-07-15T04:07:18Z")
I’ve been working on this for five hours and the closest thing this week old problem has to a “solution” appears here [http://blog.signalnine.net/?p=29](http://blog.signalnine.net/?p=29) I’ve asked in the #Ruby channel for 2 hours You can all f\*ck yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/7 "2009-07-15T14:50:55Z")
Finally made some progress, which means one less grudge 🙂 I’m guessing this thread will get some traffic in the near future, so I’m posting what I believe is a good starting block. While it’s not a parsing solution, it should aim in the right direction. require ‘rubygems’ require ‘json’ BASE\_URL = “[http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.json](http://stream.twitter.com/spritzer.json)” USER = “-uuser\_name:password” File.open(“update\_file”, “a”) do |f| IO.popen(“curl #{BASE\_URL} #{USER}”) do |p| p.each do |status| f.puts status end end end ---
**Author:** ![caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@caiwangqin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/caiwangqin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trying-to-parse-stream-twitter-com-please-help/172113/8 "2009-07-15T10:13:19Z")
FWIW, why are you trying to use an external process within the ruby script? A cursory search in twitter’s and in google will tell you that you should be able to parse the stream directly. Look up open-uri docs - that should get you someplace.