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puntofisso / scrape_tweets.rb
Created March 26, 2012 08:55 — forked from stefl/scrape_tweets.rb
Download all tweets from the twitter search API for a given search term (limited to their maximum of 1500)
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
require "fileutils"
search_term = ARGV[0]
if search_term
time = Time.now
directory_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/tweets/" + search_term + "_" + time.to_i.to_s
FileUtils.mkdir_p(directory_path)
directory = Dir.new(directory_path)
(1..15).each do |i|
`curl "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=#{search_term}&rpp=100&page=#{i}&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed" > #{directory.path}/#{i}.json`