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# <http://greptweet.com>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hendry/7577182774/" title="Offline Greptweet on Chrome IOS by Kai Hendry, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7577182774_d5b654ea69_n.jpg" width="213" height="320" alt="Offline Greptweet on Chrome IOS"></a>
* Uses [HTML offline feature](http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/offline.html)
* Aims to [suck less](http://suckless.org) 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 at one time :(
* 300 API limit using a [Application only Auth](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/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 opensource project you will notice that
you are missing a `secret.php` file, this file contains one setting
`$bearer_token`. To [create a bearer
token](https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth):
1. [Create a new Twitter app](https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new)
1. Under OAuth settings, make a note of the **Consumer key** and **Consumer secret**
1. Now retrieve the bearer token by building a request with curl:
curl -X POST --verbose "https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token" -d "grant_type=client_credentials" -u consumerKey:consumerSecret
The response should end like:
{"access_token":"SECRETEXAMPLESTRING","token_type":"bearer"}
Save that SECRETEXAMPLESTRING to secret.php:
<?php
$bearer_token = 'SECRETEXAMPLESTRING';
?>
# nginx configuration
See <https://github.com/kaihendry/greptweet/blob/master/nginx.conf>
# Daily backup
<http://backup.greptweet.com/tweets.tar>
@daily cd /srv/www/greptweet.com && git describe --always > version.txt
@daily find /srv/www/greptweet.com/u/ -name '*.gz' -type f -print0 | tar cf /srv/www/backup.greptweet.com/tweets.tar --null -T -