tweet fetchin', Bastard style

twitbastard.rb

require "open-uri"

remote_base_url =
"http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?count=100&screen_name="
twitter_user = "USAGov"
remote_full_url = remote_base_url + twitter_user
first_page = 1
last_page = 5

(first_page..last_page).each do |page_num|
  
  puts "Downloading page: " + page_num.to_s
  tweets = open(remote_base_url + twitter_user + "&page=" + page_num.to_s).read
  
  my_local_filename = twitter_user + "-tweets-page-" + page_num.to_s + ".xml"
  my_local_file = open(my_local_filename, "w")
    my_local_file.write(tweets)
  my_local_file.close
  
  sleep 5
  
end