backup your tweets as XML

twitter2xml.js

var fs = require('fs');
var http = require('http');

function sprintf(str,args) {if(args.length===0)return str;return sprintf(str.replace(/%s/,args[0]),args.splice(1));}

var page = 104;
var streams = {};
var username = process.argv[2] || 'nate_smith';
                                                                                                      
while (page > 0) {
    console.log("page: "+page);
    var callback = (function(p) {
        var locpage = p;
        return function(res) {
            console.log("key: " + locpage);
            res.on('data', function(chunk) {
                streams[locpage].write(chunk);
            });
        }
    })(page);
    streams[page] = fs.createWriteStream(sprintf('tweets/%s.xml', [page]), {flags:'a'});
    http.get({
        host: 'api.twitter.com',
        path: sprintf('/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=%s&page=%s', [username, page]),
        port: 80
    }, callback);
    page = page - 1;
}