Latest tweets

README.md

Get the latest tweets from your account.

This bash script is courtesy of @gianu.

Note that tweets-raw.sh will pipe out the returned string, which is a big hairball requiring further parsing. You can see a pretty-printed sample of what you might get back in tweets-raw.json. (This map of a tweet object is outdated but still helpful.)

If you have jq installed (brew install jq), use the tweets.sh script, which extracts out the time and text of each tweet. You can see sample results in tweets.json.

Config

You first need to create a twitter "app" in order to generate some OAuth keys.

With the app created, add the following items at the top of the script:

tweet_count=5 # the number of tweets you want to retrieve
screen_name=YOUR_SCREEN_NAME
consumer_key=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
consumer_secret=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
oauth_token=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN
oauth_secret=YOUR_AUTH_SECRET

I.e.:

• screen_name: your twitter username (e.g.: gianu)
• tweet_count: the number of tweets you want to retrieve
• consumer_key: the consumer key provided by the app
• consumer_secret: the consumer secret provided by the app
• oauth_token: the auth_token provided by the app
• oauth_secret: the auth_secret provided by the app

tweets-raw.json

[
  {
    "lang": "en",
    "possibly_sensitive": false,
    "retweeted": false,
    "favorited": false,
    "entities": {
      "user_mentions": [
        {
          "indices": [
            8,
            20
          ],
          "id_str": "349963",
          "id": 349963,
          "name": "Jason Davies",
          "screen_name": "jasondavies"
        }
      ],
      "urls": [
        {
          "indices": [
            38,
            60
          ],
          "display_url": "jasondavies.com/maps/us-rivers",
          "expanded_url": "http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/us-rivers",
          "url": "http://t.co/h7LrZwhGuI"
        }
      ],
      "symbols": [],
      "hashtags": []
    },
    "favorite_count": 0,
    "retweet_count": 0,
    "in_reply_to_status_id_str": "413372380317106176",
    "in_reply_to_status_id": 413372380317106200,
    "truncated": false,
    "source": "web",
    "text": "... and @jasondavies zoomable version http://t.co/h7LrZwhGuI",
    "id_str": "413374438566932480",
    "id": 413374438566932500,
    "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:25:20 +0000 2013",
    "in_reply_to_user_id": 23197187,
    "in_reply_to_user_id_str": "23197187",
    "in_reply_to_screen_name": "joyrexus",
    "user": {
      "notifications": false,
      "follow_request_sent": false,
      "following": false,
      "default_profile_image": false,
      "default_profile": true,
      "profile_use_background_image": true,
      "profile_text_color": "333333",
      "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
      "utc_offset": -18000,
      "favourites_count": 6,
      "created_at": "Sat Mar 07 14:36:42 +0000 2009",
      "listed_count": 0,
      "friends_count": 73,
      "followers_count": 18,
      "protected": false,
      "id": 23197187,
      "id_str": "23197187",
      "name": "Jason Voigt",
      "screen_name": "joyrexus",
      "location": "Chicago, IL | Sewanee, TN",
      "description": "Gesture Mechanic",
      "url": "http://t.co/uoBZV22rvP",
      "entities": {
        "description": {
          "urls": []
        },
        "url": {
          "urls": [
            {
              "indices": [
                0,
                22
              ],
              "display_url": "joyrexus.github.io",
              "expanded_url": "http://joyrexus.github.io",
              "url": "http://t.co/uoBZV22rvP"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "geo_enabled": false,
      "verified": false,
      "statuses_count": 122,
      "lang": "en",
      "contributors_enabled": false,
      "is_translator": false,
      "profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
      "profile_background_image_url": "http://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
      "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
      "profile_background_tile": false,
      "profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3429375357/5bb25615e6dee07c83ea8b92e628f338_normal.png",
      "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3429375357/5bb25615e6dee07c83ea8b92e628f338_normal.png",
      "profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/23197187/1378312015",
      "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
      "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
      "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6"
    },
    "geo": null,
    "coordinates": null,
    "place": null,
    "contributors": null
  },
  {
    "lang": "en",
    "possibly_sensitive": false,
    "retweeted": false,
    "favorited": false,
    "entities": {
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              "resize": "fit",
              "h": 585,
              "w": 947
            },
            "thumb": {
              "resize": "crop",
              "h": 150,
              "w": 150
            },
            "medium": {
              "resize": "fit",
              "h": 371,
              "w": 600
            },
            "small": {
              "resize": "fit",
              "h": 210,
              "w": 340
            }
          },
          "type": "photo",
          "id": 413374297470558200,
          "id_str": "413374297470558208",
          "indices": [
            67,
            89
          ],
          "media_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyZu8ACYAAPbyH.png",
          "media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyZu8ACYAAPbyH.png",
          "url": "http://t.co/ZqYFIAJ8S0",
          "display_url": "pic.twitter.com/ZqYFIAJ8S0",
          "expanded_url": "http://twitter.com/joyrexus/status/413374297466363904/photo/1"
        }
      ],
      "user_mentions": [
        {
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            9,
            18
          ],
          "id_str": "43593",
          "id": 43593,
          "name": "Mike Bostock",
          "screen_name": "mbostock"
        }
      ],
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          ],
          "display_url": "bl.ocks.org/mbostock/56060…",
          "expanded_url": "http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5606078",
          "url": "http://t.co/ukP7u82yAH"
        }
      ],
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    },
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    "truncated": false,
    "source": "web",
    "text": "See also @mbostock's rendering of US Rivers http://t.co/ukP7u82yAH http://t.co/ZqYFIAJ8S0",
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      "description": "Gesture Mechanic",
      "url": "http://t.co/uoBZV22rvP",
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              "expanded_url": "http://joyrexus.github.io",
              "url": "http://t.co/uoBZV22rvP"
            }
          ]
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      },
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      "profile_background_image_url_https": "https://abs.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png",
      "profile_background_tile": false,
      "profile_image_url": "http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3429375357/5bb25615e6dee07c83ea8b92e628f338_normal.png",
      "profile_image_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3429375357/5bb25615e6dee07c83ea8b92e628f338_normal.png",
      "profile_banner_url": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/23197187/1378312015",
      "profile_link_color": "0084B4",
      "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
      "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6"
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            },
            "large": {
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              "h": 319,
              "w": 500
            },
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              "resize": "crop",
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              "w": 150
            },
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              "w": 500
            }
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          "media_url_https": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyX_WECQAABclM.jpg",
          "url": "http://t.co/LezDcZrshF",
          "display_url": "pic.twitter.com/LezDcZrshF",
          "expanded_url": "http://twitter.com/joyrexus/status/413372380317106176/photo/1"
        }
      ],
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          "id": 19920203,
          "name": "Fernanda Viégas",
          "screen_name": "viegasf"
        },
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          ],
          "id_str": "15463062",
          "id": 15463062,
          "name": "Martin Wattenberg",
          "screen_name": "wattenberg"
        }
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          ],
          "display_url": "hint.fm/wind",
          "expanded_url": "http://hint.fm/wind",
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        }
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    "text": "@viegasf @wattenberg hint.fm's wind map is beautiful and hypnotic: http://t.co/VBD7095We2 http://t.co/LezDcZrshF",
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    "text": "#googtips Didn't know google does etymologies: https://t.co/USDsHuxP5m http://t.co/PaQaOirJA0",
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tweets-raw.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Get the latest tweets from your account.
#
# This script courtesy of @gianu: 
#  https://github.com/gianu/latest_tweets

set -o errexit

screen_name=YOUR_SCREEN_NAME
tweet_count=5 # the number of tweets you want to retrieve
consumer_key=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
consumer_secret=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
oauth_token=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN
oauth_secret=YOUR_AUTH_SECRET


timestamp=`date +%s`
nonce=`date +%s%T555555555 | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/[+=/]//g'`

signature_base_string="GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1.1%2Fstatuses%2Fuser_timeline.json&count%3D${tweet_count}%26oauth_consumer_key%3D${consumer_key}%26oauth_nonce%3D${nonce}%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D${timestamp}%26oauth_token%3D${oauth_token}%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26screen_name%3D${screen_name}"
signature_key="${consumer_secret}&${oauth_secret}"
oauth_signature=`echo -n ${signature_base_string} | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac ${signature_key} -binary | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/+/%2B/' -e s'/\//%2F/' -e s'/=/%3D/'`


header="Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key=\"${consumer_key}\", oauth_nonce=\"${nonce}\", oauth_signature=\"${oauth_signature}\", oauth_signature_method=\"HMAC-SHA1\", oauth_timestamp=\"${timestamp}\", oauth_token=\"${oauth_token}\", oauth_version=\"1.0\""

result=`curl --get 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json' --data "count=${tweet_count}&screen_name=${screen_name}" --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --header "${header}"` 

echo $result

tweets.json

{
  "text": "... and @jasondavies zoomable version http://t.co/h7LrZwhGuI",
  "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:25:20 +0000 2013"
}
{
  "text": "See also @mbostock's rendering of US Rivers http://t.co/ukP7u82yAH http://t.co/ZqYFIAJ8S0",
  "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:24:47 +0000 2013"
}
{
  "text": "@viegasf @wattenberg hint.fm's wind map is beautiful and hypnotic: http://t.co/VBD7095We2 http://t.co/LezDcZrshF",
  "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:17:10 +0000 2013"
}
{
  "text": "See http://t.co/lTWMnzfUSW for details.",
  "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:11:27 +0000 2013"
}
{
  "text": "#googtips Didn't know google does etymologies: https://t.co/USDsHuxP5m http://t.co/PaQaOirJA0",
  "created_at": "Wed Dec 18 18:08:40 +0000 2013"
}

tweets.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Get the latest tweets from your account.
#
# This script courtesy of @gianu: 
#  https://github.com/gianu/latest_tweets

set -o errexit

screen_name=YOUR_SCREEN_NAME
tweet_count=5 # the number of tweets you want to retrieve
consumer_key=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
consumer_secret=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
oauth_token=YOUR_AUTH_TOKEN
oauth_secret=YOUR_AUTH_SECRET


timestamp=`date +%s`
nonce=`date +%s%T555555555 | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/[+=/]//g'`

signature_base_string="GET&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1.1%2Fstatuses%2Fuser_timeline.json&count%3D${tweet_count}%26oauth_consumer_key%3D${consumer_key}%26oauth_nonce%3D${nonce}%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D${timestamp}%26oauth_token%3D${oauth_token}%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26screen_name%3D${screen_name}"
signature_key="${consumer_secret}&${oauth_secret}"
oauth_signature=`echo -n ${signature_base_string} | openssl dgst -sha1 -hmac ${signature_key} -binary | openssl base64 | sed -e s'/+/%2B/' -e s'/\//%2F/' -e s'/=/%3D/'`


header="Authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key=\"${consumer_key}\", oauth_nonce=\"${nonce}\", oauth_signature=\"${oauth_signature}\", oauth_signature_method=\"HMAC-SHA1\", oauth_timestamp=\"${timestamp}\", oauth_token=\"${oauth_token}\", oauth_version=\"1.0\""

result=`curl --get 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json' --data "count=${tweet_count}&screen_name=${screen_name}" --header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" --header "${header}"` 

echo $result | jq '.[] | {created_at, text}'