These are Aaron's Twitter tools. You might find them useful.
This is a modified fork of Phil Gyford's mytweets repository. It's been modified in two ways, principally:
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To allow for Twitter auth-y bits and other specifics to be defined in a configuration file (rather than as command line options).
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To write Twitter messages to individual JSON files in nested YYYY/MM/DD directories.
This is how I use it:
$>python ./backup_tweets.py -c twitter.cfg
Pass the -h flag for a complete list of options.
A sample twitter.cfg file is included with this repository. It is called
[twitter.cfg.example)(https://github.com/straup/twitter-tools/blob/master/twitter.cfg.example). Aside from the Twitter authentication credentials (that you'll need to set up on the dev.twitter site)
the important thing to update is the backup_dir configuration. As the name
suggests this where your Twitter messages will be stored.
This is the code that I use to generate a PDF book of all the tweets for a given year. This is how I use it:
$> php -q mk_annual.php -t ~/twitter/history -o 2012.pdf -u aaronofmontreal
Pass the -h flag for a complete list of options.
Printed, they look like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/6649356617/