Python script with Beautiful soup to rip Tweets from twitter account, prints as HTML for inclusion in webpage with Date/Time stamp

twitter_archive.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#Original from here: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576594/
#rips Tweets from twitter account, prints as HTML for inclusion in webpage with Date/Time stamp

import time
from urllib2 import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

# Replace USERNAME with your twitter username
url = u'http://twitter.com/USERNAME?page=%s'

for x in range(10*10000):
    f = urlopen(url % x)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read())
    f.close()
   # print soup #WHAT'S GOING ON?
    tweets = soup.findAll('span', {'class': 'entry-content'})
    dates = soup.findAll('span',{'class': 'published timestamp'})

    for index, tweet in enumerate(tweets):
	print "<h3>",dates[index].renderContents(),"</h3><p>",tweet.renderContents(),"</p>"
#	print tweet.renderContents()


    if len(tweets) == 0:
        break
    # being nice to twitter's servers
    time.sleep(5)

I get no results printed out, does this need authentication? I did use a user with public tweets for my test

No, you will not need authentication as you are just reading HTML that is publicly accessible. Twitter has just changed their site enough that the tags this script searches for no longer exist.

While not perfect, this SOF answer is more up to date. I would however recommend just getting Twitter API access.

Update: I've mashed the two together into a fully working parser that can handle links (SOF answer cannot). Here's the glist