Pull your twitter timeline tweets ( or another user ) using python and tweepy and save to file

gistfile1.txt

import sys
import tweepy
import re
import time
#for encoding to the terminal window
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")


def replace_url_to_link(value):
    # Replace url to link
    urls = re.compile(r"((https?):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&]*)", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)
    value = urls.sub(r'<a href="\1" target="_blank">\1</a>', value)
    # Replace email to mailto
    urls = re.compile(r"([\w\-\.]+@(\w[\w\-]+\.)+[\w\-]+)", re.MULTILINE|re.UNICODE)
    value = urls.sub(r'<a href="mailto:\1">\1</a>', value)
    return value

CONSUMER_KEY = 'CLIENT_ID_REPLACE'
CONSUMER_SECRET = 'CONSUMER_SECRET_REPLACE'
ACCESS_KEY = 'ACCESS_KEY_REPLACE'
ACCESS_SECRET = 'ACCESS_SECRET_REPLACE'

tweetList = []

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
statuses = api.user_timeline('user_name',count=400)


for status in statuses:
  dict={}
  dict['text'] = replace_url_to_link(status.text)
  tweetList.append(dict)
     
   

f = open("tweet.txt", "w")

for item in tweetList:
  f.write("================\n")
  f.write(item['text']+"\n")
f.close()