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Erik Berlin

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San Francisco

👋 Hi, I’m Erik. I’ve been maintaining open-source libraries in the Ruby ecosystem since shortly after GitHub started in 2008.

Notably, I maintained the Twitter Ruby library for 15 years, which I recently rewrote from scratch and renamed to X. I also wrote the t command-line interface for Twitter and maintain some core Ruby infrastructure, including MultiJSON and MultiXML. All together, the gems I maintain have over 3 billion downloads.

I also make occasional contributions to the Ruby programming language or Ruby on Rails, when I come across bugs or missing features.

Beyond Ruby, I have an interest in the Crystal programming language, so I maintain Crystal wrappers for the X API and OpenAI API.

The first $100 of sponsorship money each month will help pay for Basic Twitter API access. Any excess funds will allow me to spend more time working on open-source and help support myself and my family.

Thank you for considering sponsoring me! 😊

Current sponsors 5

@BetterStackHQ
@IFTTT
@laserlemon
@szTheory
@andrew
Past sponsors 2
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Featured work

  1. sferik/x-ruby

    A Ruby interface to the X API.

    Ruby 82
  2. sferik/t-ruby

    A command-line power tool for Twitter.

    Ruby 5,429
  3. sferik/openai-ruby

    Wrapper for calling OpenAI and GPT-3's HTTP APIs

    Ruby 113
  4. sferik/twitter-ruby

    A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.

    Ruby 4,578
  5. sferik/multi_xml

    A generic swappable back-end for XML parsing

    Ruby 157
  6. intridea/multi_json

    A generic swappable back-end for JSON handling.

    Ruby 754

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