Topmemeo

This script tracks the top article on political news aggregation site memeorandum.com. Every time a new article makes it to the top, it's saved to a database and tweeted to @topmemeorandum

Overview

The script works by:

1. Downloading the latest version of memeorandum.com
2. Parsing the key elements from the top post
3. Checking the database to see if the post is unique
4. If it is, saving it to the DB, and tweeting it

Setup

1. Register a Twitter account and developer application. I used this script to authorize my account, but there are many other ways to do it
2. The Twitter credentials are kept in topmemeo.yml. An example file is provided with the details ommitted
3. Run bundle install
4. Profit!

Note: This project is not affiliated in any way with memeorandum.com