A ruby gem for crawling social media stats from various web entities
RSocial is a Ruby gem for crawling social media stats on various web entities. It’s been setup to use Selenium WebDriver to make direct calls to your computers web browser, whereby each social media public web application is loaded and interacted with in order to poll the various stats.
Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:
gem 'rsocial'
And then execute:
$ bundler
Or install it yourself:
$ gem install rsocial
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Instagram.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.user("ryanbingham_official")
=> {:post_count=>1502, :follower_count=>471000, :following_count=>171, :handle=>"ryanbingham_official"}
client.tag("newmusic")
=> {:post_count=>6676425, :images=>[{:alt=>"caption",:src=>"src"}]}
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Facebook.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.page("RyanBingham")
=> {:follower_count=>153418, :handle=>"RyanBingham"}
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Twitter.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.user("RyanBingham")
=> {:tweet_count=>5755, :following_count=>636, :follower_count=>404000, :like_count=>151000, :handle=>"RyanBingham"}
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Youtube.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.channel("UCtZ6qwLISrbRkYG2oBYLz3g")
=> {:subscriber_count=>11378, :channel_id=>"UCtZ6qwLISrbRkYG2oBYLz3g"}
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Shazam.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.user("40229308")
=> {:follower_count=>254734, :id=>"40229308"}
require 'rsocial'
client = RSocial::Soundcloud.client(:requesting_handle => "my_handle")
client.user("ryan-bingham")
=> {:follower_count=>1988, :track_count=>51, :handle=>"ryan-bingham"}
rspec
gem build rsocial.gemspec
gem install ./rsocial-X.X.X.gem
irb
require 'rsocial'