Deep search a single twitter users's history.

deepsearch.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'

require 'json'
require 'net/http'

def term_search(screen_name, needle)
  
  (0..9999999).each do |i|
      puts "Page #{i} Search"
      
      url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?page=#{i}&screen_name=#{screen_name}"

      resp = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(url))
      data = resp.body

      result = JSON.parse(data)

      result.each do |status|
        if status["text"].include?(needle)
          puts status["text"] + " - " + "http://twitter.com/#{screen_name}/status/#{status["id"]}"
        end
      end 

      sleep(3)

  end

end

term_search("mbuckbee","@codinghorror")