jasonong/Greptweet

Backup your tweets using curl & shell

http://greptweet.com

• Uses HTML offline feature
• Authentication free, using http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
• Aims to suck less by keeping lines of code low
• Encourage folks to use fetch-tweets.sh themselves and get into shell ;)
• Dependencies: curl, libhtml-parser-perl (to decode HTML entities), xmlstarlet, coreutils, PHP
• Look and feel mostly by http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap
• Please review and comment on the code!

Known limitations

• API only allows 3200 tweets to be downloaded this way :((
• 150 API limit on the server ... (so clone it and use it yourself!)
• Won't work on protected accounts (duh!)
• No @mentions or DMs from other accounts

API

Fetch your tweets manually by accessing the URL:

http://greptweet.com/f/TWITTER_USERNAME

Last 4 tweets:

curl -s http://greptweet/u/webconverger/tweets.txt | head -n4

TODO

• Nail these bugs

Shell script feedback on the Web works by disabling Apache's mod_deflate !

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9022823/4534

There is a problem whereby if the page is killed whilst fetching, the lock isn't cleared then and there because trap does not seem to work.

Make sure your httpd does utf8 all the time:

AddDefaultCharset utf-8