coderberry · October 21, 2014 18:56 · Oct 21, 2014
diff --git a/simple-twitter.rb b/simple-twitter.rb
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+require 'oauth'
+require 'httpclient'
+require 'json'
+
+class SimpleTwitter
+  def initialize(config)
+    @config = config
+    @http_client = HTTPClient.new
+  end
+
+  def encoded_token
+    bearer_token_credentials = "#{@config[:key]}:#{@config[:secret]}"
+    Base64.encode64(bearer_token_credentials).split(/\n/).join('')
+  end
+
+  def authorization_headers
+    {
+      'Authorization' => "Basic #{encoded_token}",
+      'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'
+    }
+  end
+
+  def get_user_timeline(username, max=10)
+    access_token = get_bearer_token
+    uri = URI.parse("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=#{max}&screen_name=#{username}")
+    headers = {
+      'User-Agent' => 'My Twitter App v1.0.23',
+      'Authorization' => "Bearer #{access_token}",
+      'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip'
+    }
+    response = @http_client.get(uri, {}, headers)
+    gz = Zlib::GzipReader.new(StringIO.new(response.body.to_s))
+    return JSON.parse(gz.read)
+  end
+
+  def get_bearer_token
+    uri = URI.parse('https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token')
+    response = @http_client.post(uri, { grant_type: 'client_credentials' }, authorization_headers)
+    return JSON.parse(response.body)['access_token']
+  end
+end
+
+twitter = SimpleTwitter.new({ key: ENV['CONSUMER_KEY'], secret: ENV['CONSUMER_SECRET'] })
+results = twitter.get_user_timeline('coderberry')
+puts results.inspect