Adam Fields (work stuff)

A short ruby script to pull your twitter followers who aren’t in any lists

#!/bin/env ruby
require 'twitter'

username = 'fields'

def get_cursor_results(action, items, *args)
  result = []
  next_cursor = -1
  until next_cursor == 0
    begin
      t = Twitter.send(action, args[0], args[1], {:cursor => next_cursor})
      result = result + t.send(items)
      next_cursor = t.next_cursor
    rescue Twitter::BadRequest
      puts "Bad request, waiting an hour to see if the rate limit lifts"
      puts "Waiting at #{Time.now}"
      sleep 3610
      retry
    end
  end
  return result  
end


friends = get_cursor_results('friends', 'users', username)
lists = get_cursor_results('lists', 'lists', username)
screen_names = friends.collect{|x| x.screen_name}

listless_friends = screen_names
lists.each{|list|
  lm = get_cursor_results('list_members', 'users', username, list.slug)
  lm_screen_names = lm.collect{|x| x.screen_name}
  puts "found list #{list.slug} with members #{lm_screen_names}"
  listless_friends -= lm_screen_names
  ""
}

puts listless_friends