Code to fetch link from tweets matched by given hash_tag

{% codeblock lang:ruby%} require 'rubygems' require 'twitter'

hash_tag = ARGV.first

if hashtag.nil? puts "Please provide tag you want to fetch. Example 'rails', '#rails'" exit end puts 'fetching......' begin tweets = Twitter::Search.new.hashtag(hashtag) rescue Exception => e # Time out or any other error can occur here puts "Errors in fetching tweets #{e}" end links = [] tweets.each do |tweet| links << tweet.text.match(/\bhttps?:\/\/\S+\b/) end

links = links.uniq puts links {% endcodeblock %}