Posting links to twitter

2008-11-04 Thread dowhilesomething 

Is this possible?  Everything I try to do comes out as text.

Re: Posting links to twitter

2008-11-04 Thread Alex Payne 

Just post a URL.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, dowhilesomething
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Is this possible?  Everything I try to do comes out as text.




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Re: Posting links to twitter

2008-11-04 Thread Matthew 

On Nov 4, 8:18 pm, dowhilesomething [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Is this possible?  Everything I try to do comes out as text.

As long as it looks like a url it seems to work,
namely with the http://

I wrote a bit of code to tinyurl-ise any links
http://github.com/matthewrudy/rudebay/tree/master/lib/rudebay/twitterer.rb

 ruby
def self.make_tinyurl(link)
  url = URI.parse('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php')
  req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
  req.set_form_data('url' = link)
  res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|
http.request(req) }

  return res.body
end

Re: Posting links to twitter

2008-11-04 Thread Matthew 

On Nov 4, 8:18 pm, dowhilesomething [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
 Is this possible?  Everything I try to do comes out as text.

It works fine, as long as it recognises its a url.
(I assume it uses the Rails auto_link, or something of that sort -
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M001338)

namely start the link with an http://;

I wrote a bit of code to tinyurl any links

 ruby
def self.make_tinyurl(link)
  url = URI.parse('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php')
  req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
  req.set_form_data('url' = link)
  res = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port).start {|http|
http.request(req) }

  return res.body
end

http://github.com/matthewrudy/rudebay/tree/master/lib/rudebay/twitterer.rb

enjoy.
(apologies if I sent this twice)

MatthewRudy