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Docs for new user-timeline options, closes #35
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This will create a file called `auth.json` in your current directory containing the required values. To save the file at a different path or filename, use the `--auth=myauth.json` option.
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## Retrieving tweets by an account
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## Retrieving tweets by specific accounts
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The `user-timeline` command retrieves all of the tweets posted by the specified user account. It defaults to the account belonging to the authenticated user:
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The `user-timeline` command retrieves all of the tweets posted by the specified user accounts. It defaults to the account belonging to the authenticated user:
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$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline twitter.db
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Importing tweets [#####-------------------------------] 2799/17780 00:01:39
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$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline twitter.db -a /path/to/auth.json
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To load tweets for another user, use `--screen_name`:
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To load tweets for other users, pass their screen names as arguments:
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$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline twitter.db --screen_name=cleopaws
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$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline twitter.db cleopaws nichemuseums
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Twitter's API only returns up to around 3,200 tweets for most user accounts, but you may find that it returns all available tweets for your own user account.
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You can pass numeric Twitter user IDs instead of screen names using the `--ids` parameter.
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You can use `--since` to retrieve every tweet since the last time you imported for that user, or `--since_id=xxx` to retrieve every tweet since a specific tweet ID.
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## Retrieve accounts in bulk
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This command also accepts `--sql` and `--attach` options, documented below.
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## Retrieve user profiles in bulk
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If you have a list of Twitter screen names (or user IDs) you can bulk fetch their fully inflated Twitter profiles using the `users-lookup` command:
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