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I am releasing the Perl script I run to dump a spreadsheet of my Twitter followers and friends, Contacts.pl, as an open source project, under the Artistic License. This is the same license that Perl uses. I’ve been using this script or variations of it since before the Haiti earthquake, so it’s pretty well tested.
The master repository is on Github at http://github.com/znmeb/TwitterContacts. As far as I know, Contacts.pl will run on any modern version of Perl, but I’ve only tested it on Perl 5.10 on openSUSE Linux 11.2, and with ActiveState ActivePerl on Windows. If you have any trouble running it, please feel free to send me a tweet @znmeb.
How does it work? Contacts.pl makes Twitter API calls using the Perl Net::Twitter module from CPAN. You get the results in a comma-separated-value (CSV) file, which you can then open in a spreadsheet. Instructions for downloading and running the script are at http://github.com/znmeb/TwitterContacts/blob/master/README.
Again, please feel free to send me a tweet if you need help getting this running. And special thanks to Marc Mims (@semifor), who has developed the Net::Twitter Perl module that interfaces with the Twitter API!
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