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/ scrape_tweets.rb
Created Mar 26, 2012
— 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)
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| #! /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` |