Twitter Gem Search method

Question

My code is here

require 'twitter'



search = Twitter::Search.new.containing("obama")

it returns us

 #<Twitter::Search:0xb6881f9c @proxy=nil, @gateway=nil, @format=:json, @search_endpoint="https://search.twitter.com/", @consumer_key=nil, @adapter=:net_http, @endpoint="https://api.twitter.com/1/", @oauth_token_secret=nil, @query={:q=>["obama"], :tude=>[]}, @oauth_token=nil, @consumer_secret=nil, @user_agent="Twitter Ruby Gem 1.6.2", @cache=nil>

I want to search only public tweets that contain obama

How can i do this

Answer 1

Did you try

Twitter.search('Obama') 

or

Twitter.search('Obama', options = {}) 

Also I noticed you are missing Authentication atributes. Take a look into Twitter API Doc to make sure you have all the 'required' params.

PS: Do you want to search all the tweets that contains the string 'Obama' or all tweets with #Obama. The search result-set and the accuracy is different for both the searches.