Incomplete PHP script to scrape twitter.com for a specific user’s timeline. It’s incomplete because the email functionality has not been completed. The idea here was to email it to IFTTT, Evernote or similar for archiving.

get_tweets.php

<?php

// Enter your Twitter screen name
$screen_name = 'joshuabaker';

// Optionally enter your email address
$from_email = '';


// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// DON’T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING!

$html = file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/'.$screen_name);
$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'utf-8', mb_detect_encoding($html));
$html = mb_convert_encoding($html, 'html-entities', 'utf-8');

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);

$nodes = $doc->getElementsByTagName('p');
$tweets = array();

foreach ($nodes as $node)
{
   if ($node->hasAttributes() && $class = $node->attributes->getNamedItem('class'))
   {
      if (in_array('js-tweet-text', explode(' ', $class->nodeValue)))
      {
         $tweet = $doc->saveXML($node, LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG);
         $tweet = strip_tags($tweet);
         $tweet = str_replace('&nbsp;', '', $tweet);
         $tweet = trim($tweet, '…');
         $tweet = trim($tweet);
         $tweets[] = trim($node->nodeValue);
      }
   }
}

print_r($tweets);