http://greptweet.com

• Authentication free, using http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
• Aim to suckless by keeping LOC low
• Encourage folks to use fetch-tweets.sh themselves and get into shell ;)
• Dependencies: curl, libhtml-parser-perl (to decode HTML entities), xmlstarlet, coreutils
• Look and feel mostly by http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Known issues

• API only allows 3200 tweets to be downloaded this way :((
• 150 API limit on the server ... (so clone it and use it yourself!)
• Won't work on protected accounts (duh!)
• No @mentions or DMs from other accounts

Fetching already!

Closing a tab 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

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.

Type your name again up in the box above to update and append any new tweets to any already existing tweets.

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

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.