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How to use the Twitter API with Ruby

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Ian Murray
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2,412
Language
English
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Summary

You can fetch data from a Twitter user using the PeerReach API with Ruby and Thor. You'll need to subscribe to their API, then use a gem like Excon to make HTTP requests to the API endpoints. The `fetch` method is used to retrieve data from a specific user, and it returns the response in JSON format. The `username` method takes a username as an argument, fetches the data using the `fetch` method, and prints out the relevant information in a human-readable format. The program also includes options for fetching the data in JSON format or exiting with a non-zero status code if the user is not found.