commit 49978b0cd0036d9e8ab72ce284c91651c6467f5d
Author: Adrian Short <adrian.short@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 19 08:46:08 2012 -0700

diff --git a/search.rb b/search.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'json'
+require 'httpclient'
+require 'uri'
+require 'time'
+  
+def backup(query, since_id = nil)
+
+  uri = URI::parse('http://search.twitter.com')
+  client = HTTPClient.new
+
+  @tweets = 0  
+  @page = 1
+  @next_page = "?q=#{query}&rpp=100&page=#{@page}&result_type=recent"
+  
+  unless since_id.nil?
+    @next_page += "&since_id=#{since_id}"
+  end
+
+  loop do
+    $stderr.puts "Trying page #{@page}"
+    
+    url = "#{uri}/search.json#{@next_page}"
+    $stderr.puts url
+    response = client.get(url)
+    
+    @json = JSON.parse(response.body)
+    
+    if response.status_code == 200
+      $stderr.puts "Got page #{@page} OK"
+      
+      @count = @json['results'].size
+      @next_page = @json['next_page']
+      
+      @json['results'].each do |tweet|
+        bits = []
+        bits << Time.parse(tweet['created_at']).to_s
+        bits << tweet['id_str']
+        bits << tweet['from_user']
+        bits << tweet['text'].gsub(/\n/, ' ').gsub(/\t/, ' ')
+        bits << tweet['source']
+        bits << tweet['from_user_id_str']
+        bits << tweet['to_user']
+        bits << tweet['to_user_id_str']
+        puts bits.join "\t"
+      end  
+        
+      $stderr.puts "#{@count} tweets processed"
+      @tweets += @count
+      @page += 1
+
+    else
+      # Some kind of error
+      $stderr.puts "HTTP #{response.status_code} status code"
+
+      
+      @json['errors'].each do |error|
+        $stderr.puts "ERROR code #{error['code']}: #{error['message']}"
+      end
+
+      if response.status_code == 403
+        break
+      end
+    end
+    
+    sleep(10)      
+
+    if @count == 0
+      break
+    end
+  end
+  
+  $stderr.puts "#{@tweets} tweets collected"
+end
+
+
+backup(ARGV.shift, ARGV.shift)