getTweets.sh

getTweets.sh is a quick and simple Bash script, for fetching tweets from a specific user. This script uses twitter guest token, so there is absolute no need to either register official twitter API access or to login twitter account. The output is a json file for the further analysis. Yep, quick & simple.

Dependency

• jq

How to use

Usage:
  ./getTweets.sh -u <twitter_handle> [-m <max_num>] [-d]

Options:
  -u <handle>        Mandatory, set twitter handle
  -d                 Optional, direct output without saving to json file
  -m                 Optional, max tweets number to download
  -h | --help        Display this help message

Example

• Fetch tweets from kevcui:

~$ ./getTweets.sh -u kevcui

All downloaded tweets will be stored in a json file, format like: <handle>_<timestamp>.json