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# <http://greptweet.com>
* Authentication free, using <http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline>
* Aim to [suckless](http://suckless.org) by keeping LOC low
* Aim to [suckless](http://suckless.org) by keeping lines of code low
* Encourage folks to use `fetch-tweets.sh` themselves and get into shell ;)
* Dependencies: curl, libhtml-parser-perl (to decode HTML entities), xmlstarlet, coreutils
* Dependencies: curl, libhtml-parser-perl (to decode HTML entities), xmlstarlet, coreutils, PHP
* Look and feel mostly by <http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>
* **Please** review and comment on the code!
# Known issues
# Known limitations
* API only allows 3200 tweets to be downloaded this way :((
* 150 API limit on the server ... (so clone it and use it yourself!)
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## Fetching already!
Closing a tab whilst creating an account,
Closing a window whilst creating an account,
<http://greptweet/create.cgi?id=example>, can cause issues. Need to study
<http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement>.
## Twitter can be flaky
## @twitterapi is super flaky
Twitter does not allow the possibility of retrieving more than 3200 tweets.
Twitter does not allow the possibility of retrieving more than 3200 tweets. :(
However twitter generally stalls before coming close to this limit. Please
consider complaining to Twitter about this issue.
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I did file <https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/3414>, which later seemed to be fixed.
# Shell script feedback (progressive loading) on the Web is quite tricky
## Shell script feedback on the Web works by disabling Apache's mod_deflate !
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3547488>
Simple approaches tried:
* Outputting more than one should (doesn't work actually)
* Different newer servers of Apache seem to do transfer chunking better
Our host is limited by a "stable" version of Apache.
<http://stackoverflow.com/a/9022823/4534>

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if test -f $1.txt
then
mv $1.txt $temp
before=$(wc -l < "$temp")
before=$(wc -l < "$temp")
else
before=0
> $temp
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if test "$before" -eq "$after"
then
echo Uable to retrieve anything new. Approximately $(( $twitter_total - $after)) missing tweets
echo Unable to retrieve anything new. Approximately $(( $twitter_total - $after)) missing tweets
rm -f $temp $temp2
exit
fi
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done
echo $1 saved $saved tweets of "$twitter_total": You are uptodate!
echo $1 saved $saved tweets of "$twitter_total": You are up-to-date!