greptweet/README.md

http://greptweet.com

• Uses HTML offline feature
• Aims to suck less by keeping lines of code low
• Dependencies: PHP, curl
• Look and feel by http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap
• Please review and comment on the code!

Known limitations

• API only allows 3200 tweets to be downloaded this way :(
• 300 API limit using a Application only Auth bearer token (which doesn't seem to expire...)
• Won't work on protected accounts (duh!)
• No @mentions or DMs from other accounts

API

Fetch your tweets manually by accessing the URL:

http://greptweet.com/f/TWITTER_USERNAME

Last 4 tweets:

curl -s http://greptweet.com/u/webconverger/tweets.txt | head -n4

Getting a Bearer Token

When you clone and attempt to run this project you will notice that you are missing a secrets.php file, this file contains one setting $bearer. To create a bearer token:

1. Create a new Twitter app.

2. Base64 encode your key and secret separated by a colon, eg: key:secret => a2V5OnNlY3JldA==

3. Add the result to the Authorization header:

   wget --post-data=grant_type=client_credentials
   --header='Authorization: Basic BASE64HERE'
   --header='Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8'
   https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token