[Chicken-users] New egg: clucker (Twitter API)

[Nick Van Horn]

Hello fellow chickeneers,

I'm happy to announce the first release of the "clucker" egg, which
provides access methods to Twitter's public api endpoints.

Currently, the egg:

* Provides access to all (two) public streaming api endpoints
  (https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/public).

* Provides access to all GET methods on the REST api
  (https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public).

* Includes oauth procedures for handling credentials (via the oauth egg).

* Provides customizable parameters for each api call that control how
  returned data is processed. Default behavior is simply `read-line`,
  which means you get strings of json in return. This can be easily
  set to something more useful such as `read-json` from the medea egg.

I've been successfully using the egg in an application I've been
developing. I've written some procedures for this other application
that handle things such as rate limits (api requests are limited by
number of calls, and reset after set amounts of time), pagination of
results, etc. If others are interested, I'd be happy to share what
I've done, or simply include these procedures in the clucker egg.

A big TODO is to add the remaining REST api POST methods, which have
been ignored to date due to me not needing them in my other project :P

If one of the maintainers (Mario?) could add this to the egg
repository I would appreciate it. The egg passes salmonella and should
be ready to go. You can find the repo at
https://github.com/n3mo/clucker

Cheers!
Nick