#!/usr/bin/python
import time
from urllib2 import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
# Replace USERNAME with your twitter username
url = u'http://twitter.com/USERNAME?page=%s'
tweets_file = open('tweets', 'w')
for x in range(10*10000):
f = urlopen(url % x)
soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read())
f.close()
tweets = soup.findAll('span', {'class': 'entry-content'})
if len(tweets) == 0:
break
[tweets_file.write(x.renderContents() + '\n') for x in tweets]
# being nice to twitter's servers
time.sleep(5)
tweets_file.close()
