A friend asked me yesterday if I could snap together a script to build a local database of tweets using the twitter search API. This is what I came up with. The script takes one argument – the term to search on – and creates a sqlite3 database in the current directory containing all the [...]
I'm Ben Griffiths: an escapee of web 1.0 and web 2.0 start-ups; a programmer; developer; architect; sometime consultant; team leader; agile exponent.
I live in Greenwich, London.
You can find some of my web projects at monstermischief.com.
I'm an atheist and anti-theist, a liberal, a lefty and my hobbies include extreme beard-topiary and real ale.
Oh, and recently, I'm a very proud dad.