leo-guinan/twitter-backup

Backup Your Twitter Info

Use this notebook to back up your Twitter info.

Setup

Assumptions: you have Python 3.9+ installed, you have Poetry installed to manage dependencies, and you have a Twitter developer account.

If you need help installing Python, follow the instructions here: https://www.python.org/downloads/

If you need help installing Poetry, follow the instructions here: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation

If you need to get a Twitter developer account, follow this guide here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/getting-started

Install Dependencies

poetry install

Activate Poetry Shell

poetry shell

Start Jupyter

jupyter lab

Set Environment Variables

export TWITTER_API_KEY=<YOUR TWITTER API KEY>
export TWITTER_API_SECRET=<YOUR TWITTER API SECRET>
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<YOUR TWITTER ACCESS TOKEN>
export TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=<YOUR TWITTER ACCESS SECRET>
export TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN=<YOUR TWITTER BEARER TOKEN>

Add your Twitter username to the notebook

Look for the cell with this code TWITTER_USERNAME = "YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME" and replace YOUR_TWITTER_USERNAME with your Twitter username.

Run the notebook

Run the notebook and wait for it to finish. It will take a while to download all of your data. You'll have 2 CSV files after it runs, one with your followers, and one with your following.