I archived all the Tweets referenced by my blog
In light of the chaos that seems to be enveloping Twitter these last few weeks, I decided it was prudent to archive all the Tweets embedded in or mentioned by my personal blog. I ended up doing this with the twit NPM package.
In my blog I use a Markdown custom directive for Youtube embeds. So I grepped for these directives as well as any URL that looked like a twitter status. With those collected, I dashed together a quick Node script to download them as JSON. It looked something like:
const client = new Twit({
consumer_key: TWITTER_CREDS.apiKey,
consumer_secret: TWITTER_CREDS.apiSecret,
access_token: TWITTER_CREDS.accessToken,
access_token_secret: TWITTER_CREDS.accessTokenSecret,
strictSSL: true, // optional - requires SSL certificates to be valid.
});
for (const tweetId of tweetIds) {
try {
const tweet = await client.get("statuses/show", { id: tweetId });
fs.writeFileSync(
`tweets/${tweetId}.json`,
JSON.stringify(tweet.data, null, 2)
);
} catch (e) {
console.error(e)
console.error("Failed to get tweet", tweetId);
}
}
For the Tweets which included videos (there were only two, so I just checked manually) I downloaded them with youtube-dl. I have not yet taken the time to figured out how to download images.