twitter_images

This is a CLI tool for downloading the most recent images off of twitter based on the search terms you provide.

Installation

Execute this in the terminal:

$ gem install twitter_images

Usage

In order to use this gem you have to set up your Twitter credentials. You can get those at Twitter app management page. Create a new app, go to Keys and Access Tokens, generate your Access Token.

Then you can either set up

CONSUMER_KEY
CONSUMER_SECRET
ACCESS_TOKEN
ACCESS_SECRET

in your .bashrc, .bash_profile, .zshenv or whichever shell config you normally use or you can just run

$ twitter_images

and set those up through the command prompts.

After that you'll need to specify an absolute path to the folder you want to save your images to and specify search terms.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bundle to install dependencies.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/twitter_images/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Built With

• ruby