{"id":1119,"date":"2009-02-05T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/get-tweetertagged-user\/"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:56:44","slug":"get-tweetertagged-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/get-tweetertagged-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Get TweeterTagged User"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you use Twitter and like to script, especially in PowerShell, then I think you’ll like this. A new site, TweeterTags.com<\/a> has launched that allows you to tag your Twitter profile. The upshot is that this makes it easier to discover like-minded individuals. So let’s say I want to find all the PowerShell tagged users, here’s how I can do it directly from PowerShell with a simple script.<\/p>\n

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# Microsoft PowerShell Source File -- Created with SAPIEN Technologies PrimalScript 2009<\/span><\/pre>\n
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# NAME: Get-TweeterTag.ps1<\/span><\/pre>\n
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# AUTHOR: Jeffery Hicks , SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.<\/span><\/pre>\n
# DATE  : 2\/5\/2009<\/span><\/pre>\n
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# COMMENT: Find users by tag from TweeterTags.com <\/span><\/pre>\n
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Function Get-TweeterTag {<\/pre>\n
 Param ([string]$tag=\"powershell\"<\/span>)<\/pre>\n
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#make sure tag is in lower case<\/span><\/pre>\n
$tag=$tag.ToLower()<\/pre>\n
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$url=\"http:\/\/www.tweetertags.com\/tag\/$tag\/users.xml\"<\/span><\/pre>\n
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# Write-Host \"Downloading $url\" -fore yellow<\/span><\/pre>\n
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$web=New-Object System.net.WebClient<\/pre>\n
[xml]$users=$web.DownloadString($url)<\/pre>\n
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$users.TweeterTagsUsers.User<\/pre>\n
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}<\/pre>\n
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Write-Host \"PowerShell\"<\/span> -ForegroundColor Green<\/pre>\n
Get-TweeterTag | sort Name | select Name,Screen_Name,Description<\/pre>\n
Write-Host `n<\/pre>\n
Write-Host \"VMWare\"<\/span> -ForegroundColor Green<\/pre>\n
Get-TweeterTag \"VMWare\"<\/span> | sort Name | select Name,Screen_Name,Description<\/pre>\n
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The script, Get-TweeterTag.ps1, is a wrapper for the Get-TweeterTag function. The function takes a parameter which is the tag you want to search for. It should be passed in lowercase, but the function will convert it to be sure. The default tag is PowerShell.<\/p>\n
Then using the System.Net.Webclient object I download the xml file with all the tagged users from the site and save it as an xml document.<\/p>\n
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$web=New-Object System.net.WebClient<\/pre>\n
[xml]$users=$web.DownloadString($url)<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The function then writes each user node to the pipeline.<\/p>\n
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$users.TweeterTagsUsers.User<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
This allows me to use the function like this:<\/p>\n
Get-TweeterTag | sort Name | select Name,Screen_Name,Description<\/p>\n
Get-TweeterTag\u00a0 “VMWare” | sort Name | select Name,Screen_Name,Description<\/p>\n
You could take this a step further, and I expect people will, to use add users you aren’t already following.<\/p>\n
By the way, this was fun to develop and test in PrimalScript 2009<\/a>.\u00a0 I could write a PowerShell expression in the editor, then drag and drop it into the integrated command window and have it execute.<\/p>\n
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Download this script as a text file here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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