topsy implements the Topsy API specified here: http://code.google.com/p/otterapi
Use it at your own risk. You're welcome to collaborate!
You can install the gem from the gemcutter repository
$ gem install gemcutter
$ gem tumble
$ gem install topsy
Simple call in the console of any Rails project:
>> require 'topsy'
>> Topsy.author_info('http://twitter.com/barackobama')
=> <#Topsy::Author description="44th President of the United States" influence_level=10 name="Barack Obama" nick="barackobama" topsy_author_url="http://topsy.com/twitter/barackobama" type="twitter" url="http://twitter.com/barackobama">
Find it here: http://pengwynn.github.com/topsy/doc/index.html
rtopsy @ Google Groups => http://groups.google.com/group/rtopsy
You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/pengwynn/topsy