#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
require 'pp'

phrase = 'veader'
search = Twitter::Search.new phrase, :since => (Date.today - 2),
                                     :until => (Date.today - 1)

results = []

# twitter limits search to 100 message per page and 1500 messages total
1.upto(15) do |page|
  # NOTE: the per_page(100) may be redundant and repetitive
  chunk = search.page(page).per_page(100).fetch(true).results
  break if chunk.empty?

  chunk.each do |tweet|
    results << { :property_id  => 0,
                 :create_date  => Time.now,
                 :post_date    => tweet['created_at'],
                 :post_content => tweet['text'] }
  end
end

pp results