Finding and downloading deleted Tweets takes a lot of time. Thankfully, with this tool, it becomes a piece of cake! 🎂
Twayback is a portmanteau of Twitter and the Wayback Machine. Enter your desired Twitter username, and let Twayback do the rest!
- Can download some or all of a user's archived deleted Tweets.
- Lets you extract Tweets text to a text file (yes, even quote retweets!)
- Has ability to screenshot deleted Tweets.
- Allows custom time range to narrow search for deleted Tweets archived between two dates.
- Differentiates between accounts that are active, suspended, or don't/no longer exist.
- Lets you know if a target handle's archived Tweets have been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
- Saves a log of the deleted tweet URLs in case you want to view on the Wayback Machine.
- Ability to rotate through a list of proxy servers to avoid 429 errors. You will need to do this for data sets larger than about 800 tweets.
twayback -u USERNAME [OPTIONS]
-u, --username Specify target user's Twitter handle
--batch-size Specify how many URLs you would like to
examine at a time. Expecting an integer between
1 and 100. A larger number will give you a speed
boost but at the risk of errors. Default = 100
--semaphore-size Specify how many urls from --batch-size you would
like to query asyncronously at once. Expecting an integer
between 1 and 50. A larger number will give you a speed
boost but at the risk of errors. Default = 50
-from, --fromdate Narrow search for deleted Tweets *archived*
on and after this date
(can be combined with -to)
(format YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD
or YYYYMMDD, doesn't matter)
-to, --todate Narrow search for deleted Tweets *archived*
on and before this date
(can be combined with -from)
(format YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD
or YYYYMMDD, doesn't matter)
--proxy-file Provide a list of proxies to use. You'll need this for checking large groups of tweets
Each line should contain one url:port to use
The script will pick a new proxy from the list at random after each --batch-size
Logs After checking a user's tweets but before you
make a download selection, a folder will be created
with that username. That folder will contain a log of:
<deleted-twitter-url>:<deleted-wayback-url> in case you needed them
Examples:
twayback -u taylorswift13 Downloads all of @taylorswift13's
deleted Tweets
twayback -u jack -from 2022-01-05 Downloads all of @jack's
deleted Tweets
*archived* since January 5,
2022 until now
twayback -u drake -to 2022/02/09 Downloads all of @drake's
deleted Tweets *archived*
since the beginning until
February 9, 2022
twayback -u EA -from 2020-08-30 -to 2020-09-15 Downloads all of @EA's
deleted Tweets *archived*
between August 30, 2020 to
September 15, 2020
git clone https://github.com/Mennaruuk/twayback
cd twayback
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
or possibly
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the command:
python3 twayback.py -u USERNAME
(Replace USERNAME with your target handle).
For more information, check out the Usage section above.
Screenshots are done using Playwright. To successfully take screenshots, please follow these steps:
- Open a terminal window.
- Run:
playwright install.
The default speed settings for --semaphore-size and --batch-size are set to the fastest possible execution. Reduce these numbers to slow down your execution and reduce the chance of errors.
For checking large numbers of tweets (> than 800) you'll need to use web proxies and --proxy-file flag
- Quality of the HTML files depends on how the Wayback Machine saved them. Some are better than others.
- This tool is best for text. You might have some luck with photos. You cannot download videos.
- By definition, if an account is suspended or no longer exists, all their Tweets would be considered deleted.
- Custom date range is not about when Tweets were made, but rather when they were archived. For example, a Tweet from 2011 may have been archived today.