XPostSanitizer

Sanitize X Post (formerly Twitter Tweet)

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add x_post_sanitizer

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install x_post_sanitizer

Use XPostSanitizer.sanitize_text

e.g.

require "json"
require "x_post_sanitizer"

# https://x.com/github/status/866677968608927744
tweet = JSON.parse(File.read("spec/support/fixtures/full_text_tweet1.json"))

tweet["full_text"]
#=> "Introducing GitHub Marketplace, a new place to browse and buy integrations using your GitHub account. https://t.co/mPTtAxnU5z https://t.co/Wz2mUql2lc"

XPostSanitizer.sanitize_text(tweet)
#=> "Introducing GitHub Marketplace, a new place to browse and buy integrations using your GitHub account. https://github.com/blog/2359-introducing-github-marketplace-and-more-tools-to-customize-your-workflow"

• Expand urls in text or full_text (e.g. t.co url -> original url)
• Remove media urls in text or full_text
• Unescape special html characters in text or full_text (e.g. (> <) -> (> <))

All methods and options are followings

https://sue445.github.io/x_post_sanitizer/XPostSanitizer.html

This has the same features as tweet_sanitizer but with the following differences

• tweet_sanitizer
  • Requires https://github.com/sferik/twitter-ruby
• x_post_sanitizer
  • Requires only plain X API response. (Hash which parsed JSON string)
  • No requires https://github.com/sferik/twitter-ruby

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/sue445/x_post_sanitizer.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.