Techbelly » scripts http://www.techbelly.com Ben Griffiths' weblog Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:33:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sucking tweets into a local database http://www.techbelly.com/2009/11/14/sucking-tweets-into-a-local-database/ http://www.techbelly.com/2009/11/14/sucking-tweets-into-a-local-database/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:47:27 +0000 Ben http://www.techbelly.com/?p=406 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 tweets that the twitter search API returns for that term.

It requires datamapper and twitter_search gems to be installed.

Have at it, make it better, bend it to your twitter-slurping needs.

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