Erik L. Arneson is a freelance writer and software developer with WordPress experience. He is located in Portland, Oregon. Jekyll 2026-06-18T15:03:10+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/feeds/tweetbook.xml Erik L. Arneson Erik L. Arneson 2015-04-01T17:48:56+00:00 https://arnesonium.com/2015/04/create-a-document-from-twitter-with-tweetbook <p>I just released <a href="http://tweetbook.arnesonium.com/" title="TweetBook" target="_blank">TweetBook</a>, a web application to transform a Twitter stream into a simple document that can easily be turned into a photo album. <!--more--></p> <h2>The Problem</h2> <p>A client came to me complaining that there was no available solution to export a Twitter feed as a document filled with images. There are various other Twitter-to-document converters out there, but they all focus on the text. The client asked me to build a tool to fill this void.</p> <h2>The Solution</h2> <p>Since I’ve been working with Google App Engine a lot lately, I used Go to write a tool that retrieves Tweets from a search or timeline. It provides a number of formatting options, and then creates a simple document suitable for exporting into an HTML or PDF file.</p> <h2>Try It Out!</h2> <p><em>As of 2022, this application is seven years old and probably doesn’t work anymore.</em></p> <p>The client told me to do whatever I wanted with the code, so I’m making it available for use! <strong><a href="http://tweetbook.arnesonium.com/" title="TweetBook" target="_blank">Click here to try TweetBook!</a></strong> If you find it useful, please consider funding further development by contributing a small amount with this button:</p> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"> <button type="submit" class="btn">Contribute $1.99 &raquo;</button><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" /><input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="3PNSJJHRF9XWA" /> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" /> </form> <h2>Do You Have a Suggestion? A Bug Report?</h2> <p>If you have additional ideas for TweetBook, please visit my <a href="http://arnesonium.com/contact/" title="Contact">Contact page</a>. I’m eager to hear your feedback and get suggestions and bug reports!</p>