2014-05-13

Printing twitter and github followers

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

Author : Emad Elsaid (https://github.com/blazeeboy)

this script will get your followers count across socsial media, i get the user profile page and use Regex to grab the followers number

require 'open-uri'

Getting github followers

def github( username )
  page = open("https://github.com/#{username}").read
  followers = page.scan(/<.+>([0-9]+)<.+>[[:space:]]+followers/i).flatten.first
  puts "Github : #{followers} Followers"
end

get twitter followers by twitter handle

def twitter( username )
  page = open("https://twitter.com/#{username}").read
  followers = page.scan(/followers<.+>[[:space:]]+<.+>([0-9]+)<.+>/i).flatten.first
  puts "Twitter : #{followers} Followers"
end

use them to print your followers using github username and twitter handle

github 'blazeeboy'
twitter 'blaz_boy'```