jvns/tweets-archive

a twitter archive thing

Powers https://tweets.jvns.ca. As usual for me it's only designed for me to use and not really general software, a lot of my information is hardcoded into it.

To make it work, you need two things:

1. a searchDocuments.js with your tweets
2. a tweets_media directory

I got those from this tool by Darius Kazemi

how to set it up

1. Get your twitter archive from Twitter (seems to still be working as of July 25, 2023)
2. Use Darius Kazemi's twitter archive tool to generate a zip file, and unzip it into a directory, let's call it ARCHIVE_DIR

git clone https://github.com/jvns/tweets-archive
cd tweets-archive
cp ARCHIVE_DIR/searchDocuments.js .
cp -R ARCHIVE_DIR/TWITTER_USERNAME/tweets_media .

4. Edit app.js, index.html, and build.py to replace my information with your information (described in the next section)
5. Run python3 scripts/build.py

edits you'll need to make

All of my information is hardcoded into the files. You'll need to edit index.html, build.py, and app.js. To replace it with your information, search the code for:

• julia
• Julia
• b0rk
• profile.jpg

and replace it with your information instead.

themes

It literally copies all of the CSS from https://nitter.net so you should be able to use any of Nitter's themes. Just copy the CSS file and replace twitter.css in the index.html with the theme of your choice.