Introduction

This is a quick Ruby script I wrote to help a friend of mine migrate some of his tweets to Tumblr.

He used to post movie/music/tv reviews to Twitter, but decided to move them to Tumblr and didn't want to have to search manually for them.

What It Does

This script will print the last 3200 tweets of a Twitter user that match the regular expression "*" (basically any tweet that has text inside quotes). It would be easy to extend to add the regex as a command line input.

After pulling all the tweets and dates. It prints them to a text file called output.txt in the current directory in the format:

			Tweet text is first. This is it.
			2011-12-25 11:54:28 -0600
			<new line>

Note: 3200 tweets is Twitter's limit. There's also a sixty second pause between calls to fulfill rate limiting.

Depends on the Twitter gem.

			gem install twitter

Run the script using:

			ruby tweet-quote-puller.rb twitter-username