Twitter backup script

Miscellaneous Ramblings....

Saturday, August 22. 2009

Twitter backup script

In my earnest endeavor to back everything up ;-), I hacked together a quick script to back up the last 3,200 tweets (making use of the curl command provided here):
• Back up last 3,200 Tweets:

#!/bin/bash

# curl command pulled from this site:
# http://dcortesi.com/2009/07/16/for-wil-wheaton/
#
# Note: CURL_COMMAND should all be on one line
#

echo -e "\n(`date`) Starting... \n"

SUFF=`date +"%d%h%y_%H%M"`
DIR=${HOME}/Documents/Twitter_Backups
CURL_COMMAND="curl --insecure --output \"tweetpage_#1\" -u username:password \"https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=100&page=[1-32]\" "

cd $DIR/${SUBDIR} || die "Couldn't change to $DIR"
[[ ! -d ${SUBDIR} ]] && mkdir ${SUBDIR} || die "Unable to make ${SUBDIR}"
cd ${SUBDIR}

echo -e "\t (`date`) Dumping last 3,200 tweets"
time $CURL_COMMAND
echo -e "\n(`date`) Done. \n"


I tripped across the above site thanks to the nice article by Lifehacker detailing some handy utilities for backing up your online data (Gmail, Flickr, Facebook, etc).
In addition, here are some easy to use remote backup utilities:
(fyi: if you are really into statistics & Twitter, you can view your tweet statistics on TweetStats).
Posted by Colleen Velo in Computers, Google Comments: (0) Trackbacks: (0)

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