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James Robertson http://www.r0bertson.co.uk

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Searching through your Twitter archive

This Ruby code downloads previous twitter entries as html files to a local file directory.
(1..5).each {|i| `wget --user=jrobertson --password=secret http://twitter.com/account/archive?page=#{i}`}

then using grep -i <keyword> * you can search for anything you've twittered in the past.

Note: Use Wget sparingly.
to ruby shell wget search twitter archive by jrobertson on Feb 20, 2008

Wget's switch to preserve the filename

Download a file and preserve the filename. Without the switch -O the next time the file is downloaded the new filename would be projxmlbase.rb.1

wget -O projxmlbase.rb http://xml.mysqueak.info/p/projxmlbase.rb
to linux shell wget by jrobertson on Jan 07, 2008

Ruby equivalent of a simple Wget

Reads the file contents from a URL. I used this code to work around the problem with the Ruby RSS reader which couldn't read the RSS file from digg.com. The reason being that the website would not allow files to be downloaded without supplying the User-Agent string.

require 'open-uri'
puts open('http://digg.com/rss/index.xml',
     'User-Agent' => 'Ruby-Wget').read
to ruby wget http open-uri by jrobertson on Oct 15, 2007
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