A quick and dirty way to get recent tweets

tweet-fetch.php

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
$params = array(
  "screen_name" => "tomnomnom",
  "include_rts" => "true"
);

if (!file_exists('last-id')){
  touch('last-id');
}

$lastId = file_get_contents('last-id');
if (is_numeric($lastId)){
  $params['since_id'] = $lastId;
}

$q = http_build_query($params);
$url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?{$q}";
$r = file_get_contents($url);
if (!$r) exit(1);

$tweets = json_decode($r);

if (sizeOf($tweets) == 0) exit(1);

$lastId = $tweets[0]->id;
file_put_contents('last-id', $lastId);

foreach($tweets as $tweet){
  
  $row = array($tweet->id);

  if (isset($tweet->in_reply_to_status_id)){
    $row[] = $tweet->in_reply_to_status_id;
  } else {
    $row[] = '';
  }

  if (isset($tweet->in_reply_to_user_id)){
    $row[] = $tweet->in_reply_to_user_id;
  } else {
    $row[] = '';
  }

  if (isset($tweet->retweeted_status)){
    $row[] = $tweet->retweeted_status->id;
  } else {
    $row[] = '';
  }

  if (isset($tweet->retweeted_status)){ 
    $row[] = $tweet->retweeted_status->user->id;
  } else {
    $row[] = '';
  }

  $row[] = $tweet->created_at;
  $row[] = $tweet->source;
  $row[] = $tweet->text;

  fputcsv(STDOUT, $row);
}

exit(0);