Since twitter started charging for API, you can’t do much with a free twitter. This exists to provide something akin to the old twitter api to provide a list of tweets in the twitter JSON format
- bundle install
- ruby main.rb # optional -p <port number> as a sinatra app it defaults to 4567
If you need CORS support you can pass a port number via –cors to allow requests from localhost:<port>
- ruby main.rb –cors 3000
- if you hit this url http://localhost:4567/1.1/statuses/status.json?count=3 # note that count can be supplied, defaults to 30
- you get json like this
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