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Tim Hutton

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: github.com/timhutton/twitter-a

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

179 comments
Shannon Clark

@timhutton definitely going to take a look at that when my Twitter archive is available (assuming the site stays up long enough to get it - my archive will be pretty massive)

Curious if you know of any services that help you search/query/analyze your Twitter archives? Do anything useful with them (like expose them if you choose to do that in an archival form somewhere?)

r_9771

@timhutton the backend has all the data. Easy to grep. Plain text. Nothing special. The HTML makes it easier to navigate for sure. But it’s there. #grepskills

carrabelloy

@timhutton coole Idee und Sache πŸ‘ πŸ‘πŸ™

jeffinreality

@timhutton I just did my archive download but had no idea how limited it was, thank you for this!!

JAMdrops

@timhutton this is very useful advice. I got my archive a couple weeks ago and yes it is a pain to work with.

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