Download Tweets
Download all the tweets for a given Twitter username.
By Ryan McGreal.
122 words. Approximately a 0 minute read.
Posted March 31, 2010 in Projects.
(Last Updated April 01, 2010)
Contents
| 1 | Introduction | ||
| 2 | Notes | ||
| 3 | Exciting Update | ||
1 Introduction ↑
A simple python script to download all the tweets for a given Twitter username.
Download the script and documentation from its github repository.
2 Notes ↑
The twitter API will only let you download the most recent 3,200 tweets. (Don't worry - all your tweets are still in their database. They eventually plan to make them all available.)
The Twitter API also limits the number of data requests to 150 per hour. At 20 tweets per page, that means you're actually limited to 3,000 tweets.
3 Exciting Update ↑
My first fork! On a request from John Fink, Jay Parlar was nice enough to fork Download Tweets and add optional command line username and filemane arguments.
As soon as I get a chance, I'll merge his additions into my branch.