See /blech/mytweets

fetch_twitter.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# Incredibly cackhanded Twitter backup. Needs *lots* of work.

import urllib2
import simplejson as json

import base64

page = 1
posts = []

username = "username" # TODO take on command line or from .rc file
password = "password"

# base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, password))[:-1]

password_mgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
top_level_url = "http://twitter.com/"
password_mgr.add_password(None, top_level_url, username, password)
handler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_mgr)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(handler)

while (page < 10):
  response = opener.open('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=200&page=%s' % page)
  data = response.read()
  
  tweets = json.loads(data)
  print tweets
  posts.extend(tweets)
  page += 1

print json.dumps(posts)
print len(posts)