greptweet/README.markdown

http://greptweet.com

• Authentication free, using http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
• Aim to suckless and keep 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

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

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 on the Web is unsolved :(

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3547488

Could do with some help here to make shell scripts show nicely, like tail in a console.