Oilbird

Gnip Historical Search

Work in progress, not complete yet

$ oilbird init
Enter account name: <your gnip account name>
Enter username: <your gnip username>
Enter password: <your gnip password>

Listing jobs is easy:

$ oilbird list

You can also just read from the local job cache:

$ oilbird list cache

API

As far as I understand Gnip does not intend their Historical Powertrack to be used programmatically, so neither do I intend this tool to be used in such a way. I am however sure that it would be possible.

Name

The name is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oilbird which is described as having a primitive echolocation. Which is suitable since command line tools aren't that fancy.

Apparently, there is also something about social media and birds.