Download all the tweets from a Twitter user

Question

I thought this was a method with which I could use to list all the tweets from a Twitter user:

curl -s --user-agent 'Mozilla' --insecure 'https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/vodafone_au.xml?count=50000'

But it seems that if the Twitter user exceeds 200 tweets then it doesn't work.

Does anyone have any idea how to download all the tweets from a specific Twitter user?

Answer 1

As per the Twitter API docs, the API is limited to 200 tweets per request.

This thread on the twitter-development-talk mailing list suggests setting next_cursor_str.

There's also options called max_id and page that might help.

Answer 2

This command will get the last 3200 tweets, which is the maximum twitter let's you access.

Basically, it downloads 32 pages containing each 100 tweets.

curl -s --user-agent 'Mozilla' --insecure 'https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/vodafone_au.xml?count=100&page=[1-32]'

Answer 3

You must check this link http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_ways_to_archive_your_tweets.php

it has a lot of apps which will help you to archive your tweets!!