Get all the tweets in a thread starting at the end

get_all_tweets.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

START=$1
CURRENT="${START}"

mkdir $START

download_tweet () {
  twurl "/1.1/statuses/show/${CURRENT}.json" > "${START}/${1}.json"
}

download_all_tweets () {
  echo $CURRENT
  CURRENT="$1"
  twurl "/1.1/statuses/show/${CURRENT}.json" > "${START}/${1}.json"
  PREV=`cat ${START}/${CURRENT}.json | jq -r .in_reply_to_status_id_str`
  if [ ! -z "$PREV" ]
  then
    echo "Going to get $PREV"
    download_all_tweets $PREV
  else
    echo "Tweet not in reply"
  fi
}

download_all_tweets $CURRENT

Usage ./get_all_tweets.sh 1119100319584022528 where 1119100319584022528 is the last tweet in a thread.

Requires twurl and the END of a well formed twitter thread (i.e. the last tweet is a reply to the second to last tweet which is a reply to the third to last tweet.

Will create a folder named after the tweet you pass in and then a separate file for each tweet.

Use your favorite bash stuff to do things with these files later.