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#!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'rubygems' require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' module Twitter class PrivateMessage attr_accessor :tweet_id, :sender_id, :raw_text, :sent_at def initialize(options = {}) options.keys.each do |key| send("#{key}=", options[key]) if respond_to?("#{key}=") end end end def self.find_pms(user, pass) url = "http://twitter.com/direct_messages.xml" h = Hpricot::XML(open(url, :http_basic_authentication=> [user, pass])) (h/"direct_message").map do |dm| Twitter::PrivateMessage.new( :tweet_id => dm.at("id").innerHTML, :sender_id => dm.at("sender_id").innerHTML, :sent_at => dm.at("created_at").innerHTML, :raw_text => dm.children[3].innerHTML # stupid hpricot 0.5 ) end end end

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