[wishlist] Add support for message logging

[Mpampis]

The number of twitter messages available for reading are 20. Every time a new tweet comes, the least recent tweet disappears. This is probably because of the limitations of the twitter API. Every time gwibber is updated, makes a call to the twitter API and pulls the 20 most recent messages.
But this makes it difficult to keep up with many frequently-updating friends or to leave gwibber running in order to catch all the updates.

A possible solution to this might be to locally store the tweets using a database.
(maybe sqlite(?) or sqlalchemy(?) could help)

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

This would imply also some short of archive/mark as read/delete older/unwanted dents.

[Fabien Tassin (fta)]

I would like a real optional logging feature (in files), like xchat has.

Also, inside the UI, more than the last 20 message is definitely a requirement. Especially with groups, it's easy to be flooded and then miss some more important stuff. Something like liferea would be nice, i.e. default expiration based on number of messages, or time, and an optional per feed/tab/service/whatever value.

[Jonathan Lumb (jonolumb)]

it would be handy if all twits could be downloaded to a database as mentioned as above - then marked as read once you have finished looking at them. this way only new and unread twits would be visible in the interface.

[ChrisTomalty (christomalty-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't believe it's an API restriction: I used DestroyTwitter (an AIR app) for quite some time and the number of tweets it allowed me to display were pretty much endless.

Gwibber really can't be an option for me, unfortunately, until you can grab more than 20 tweets.

[Ryan Paul (segphault)]

Gwibber 2.0 already lets you view more than 20 tweets in the main view. That issue is resolved. Logging to disk has not yet been implemented, however, and is planned for a future version.

[Angel Guzman Maeso (shakaran)]

This request of feature have almost three years. Sadly, yet It is not planned for a future roadmap. I think that it's very important for the active users that have timeline flooded.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

Plugins can now be created out of tree, so this is a good candidate for creating a plugin. You can look at lp:gwibber-service-sina as an example, unfortunately we don't have plugin developer documentation yet. However, if you are interested in developing a plugin (shouldn't be too difficult), join us in #gwibber on FreeNode and we can try to guide you through it