How to return full JSON of Tweet from Twitter Gem Twitter Object

Question

So I have some code:

#twitter api access config up here
Twitter.status(27558893223)

and I know I get all the tweet information from that Twitter.status line. What I want though isn't a Ruby object. I want the full JSON of that tweet so I can directly use it in populating my mongodb instance. Can I get some help on how to convert that tweet object into just JSON?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Couldn't you use JSON.generate method on Tweet.attrs?

Answer 2

It mostly depends what all columns you want to populate in your DB. The doc here mentions pretty good info on what all elements you can fetch from Twitter::Tweet.

For instance you can do things like mentioned below and store it accordingly to your DB instance.

Twitter.status(27558893223).source
Twitter.status(27558893223).from_user
Twitter.status(27558893223).from_user_id 
Twitter.status(27558893223).lang

Or you could do Twitter.status(27558893223).attrs and handle the JSON accordingly.

Let me know if I understood the question wrong.