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beandr on 09/01/09

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Backup your Twitter Tweets

/ Published in: Ruby

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ruby twitterbackup.rb yourtwittername

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#! /usr/bin/ruby
 
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
 
class TwitterBackup
 
  def backup(username)
    url = URI::parse('http://twitter.com')
 
    page = 1
    loop do
      req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=#{username}&count=200&page=#{page}")
      res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http| http.request(req) }
 
      if res.body.length > 2
        process_response(JSON.parse(res.body))
      else 
        break
      end
 
      page += 1   
    end
  end
 
  protected
    def process_response(response_json)
        response_json.each do |tweet|
          puts "#{Time.parse(tweet['created_at']).strftime("%A %d %B %Y at %I:%M%p")}, #{tweet['text']}, #{tweet['source']}, #{tweet['in_reply_to_screen_name']}"
        end
    end
end
 
TwitterBackup.new.backup(ARGV[0])