com.vsubhash.bash.twitter-to-pdf.txt is a Unix/Linux shell script for saving all messages posted by a Twitter account as an archive in PDF format.

com.vsubhash.bash.twitter-to-pdf.txt

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
	echo -e "The format is:\n\t\e[35m`basename $0` \e[35;1mtwitter-handle-or-hashtag number-of-tweets [nojs]\e[0m"
  exit
fi

# A backup of all files will be available in this Logs directory
if [ ! -d ~/Logs ]; then
  mkdir ~/Logs
fi
cd ~/Logs

# Declare variables
iTweetsPerPage=100
iPage=1
iMaxPages=1
iRemainder=0
sDocs=""

# Initialize variables
let "iMaxPages = $2 / $iTweetsPerPage"
let "iRemainder = $2 % $iTweetsPerPage"
if [ $iRemainder -gt 0 ]; then
  let "iMaxPages = iMaxPages + 1"
fi

# Javascript to remove YouTube IFrames. 
sJavaScript="(function(){var arIframes=document.getElementsByTagName('iframe');var n = arIframes.length; for (var i=0;i<n;i++){ arIframes[0].parentElement.removeChild(arIframes[0]);}})()"

# If Javascript scripts cause problems, use the "nojs" argument to this 
# shell script
if [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
  sJavaScriptFlag="--disable-javascript"
else
  sJavaScriptFlag="--enable-javascript"
fi

# Create archives
for (( iPage=1; iPage $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoValue: Subhash TweetsToRSS (www.vsubhash.com)" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoKey: Title" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoValue: The complete Twitter archive of $1" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoKey: Subject" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoValue: Collection of all tweets from $1" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoKey: Author" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoValue: $1" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoKey: Keywords" >> $1-meta.txt
echo "InfoValue: $1, twitter, tweets, archive" >> $1-meta.txt
pdftk Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf \
      update_info $1-meta.txt \
      output The-Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
  notify-send "Twitter archive" "Completed for @$1"
else 
  notify-send "Twitter archive" "Error occurred for @$1"
fi  

if [ -f The-Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf ]; then
  cp ./The-Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf ~/Desktop/The-Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf    
fi

# Cleanup
if [ ! -d $1-backup  ]; then
  mkdir $1-backup
fi
if [ -d $1-backup  ]; then
	mv -f $1-archive-*.pdf ./$1-backup
	mv -f Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf ./$1-backup
	mv -f $1-meta.txt ./$1-backup
	mv ./The-Complete-Twitter-Archive-of-$1.pdf ./$1-backup
fi