Let's backup our tweets using twitter-backup.sh
Sunday, September 5th, 2010Update (2010-10-23): I've just uploaded twitter-backup.sh to Google Code.
I've written a very simple BASH script to backup my tweets. It's very easy to use:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | $ ./twitter-backup.sh Usage ./twitter-backup.sh TWITTER-USERNAME $ ./twitter-backup.sh mondalaci 2010-09-05 17:46:04 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=1 [40899/40899] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/1.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:06 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=2 [42928/42928] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/2.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:07 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=3 [42753/42753] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/3.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:09 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=4 [42784/42784] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/4.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:11 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=5 [42872/42872] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/5.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:11 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=6 [6465/6465] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/6.xml" [1] 2010-09-05 17:46:12 URL:http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/mondalaci.xml?page=7 [75/75] -> "twitter-backup-mondalaci-2010-09-05_17-46-03/7.xml" [1] |
I've followed the holy way of Unix, the KISS principle when developing this little script:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | #!/bin/bash if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage $0 TWITTER-USERNAME" exit 1 fi username=$1 backup_dir=twitter-backup-$username-`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S` mkdir $backup_dir page=1 while true; do dest_file=$backup_dir/$page.xml wget -nv -O $dest_file http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.xml?page=$page page_size=`stat -c%s $dest_file` if [ $page_size -lt 1000 ]; then break # We've reached a final, empty page so let's exit from the loop. fi page=$(($page+1)) done rm $dest_file # Delete the last, empty page. |