RSS Twitter Bot with Ruby

A short Ruby script that will read an RSS feed and republish it to your Twitter account. This could be useful for livestreaming or getting some sort of commercial presence on there.

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'active_record'
	require 'simple-rss'
	require 'open-uri'
	require 'twitter'
	#twitter account to post to
	twitter_email = "yourtwitteremail@bla.com"
	twitter_password = "secret"
	#rss feed to post
	rss_url = "http://yoursite.com/index.xml"
	rss_user_agent = "http://twitter.com/yourbot"
	#sqlite db
	path_to_sqlite_db = "/PATH/TO/db.sqlite"
	ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDERR)
	ActiveRecord::Base.colorize_logging = false
	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
	:adapter => "sqlite3",
	:dbfile => path_to_sqlite_db
	)
	#uncomment this section the first time to create the table
	#
	#ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
	# create_table :item do |table|
	# table.column :title, :string
	# table.column :link, :string
	# end
	#end
	class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
	def to_s
	"#{self.title[0..(130-self.link.length)]} - #{self.link}"
	end
	end
	#run the beast
	rss_items = SimpleRSS.parse open(rss_url ,"User-Agent" => rss_user_agent)
	for item in rss_items.items
	Item.transaction do
	unless existing_item = Item.find(:all, :conditions => ["link=?", item.link]).first
	twitter ||= Twitter::Base.new(twitter_email, twitter_password)
	new_item = Item.create(:title => item.title, :link => item.link)
	twitter.post(new_item.to_s)
	end
	end
	end

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