OldTweets backs up (and deletes, if you so desire) all your tweets beyond the latest 100.
This script will work if, and only if, you:
- Use python3
- Install python-twitter: https://github.com/bear/python-twitter and dependencies (or run
pip install -Ur requirements.txt) - go to dev.twitter.com, sign up with your account and create a new app (the details can be bogus, your app will be private)
- copy the consumer key and secret from your app in a credentials file
- go to "my access token" in the (righthand) menu of your app and copy the token and key in a credentials file
a credentials file is distributed with this script, as a sample. This file won't work so you have to create your twitter app and copy your own credentials.
Older versions had plenty of options. The latest version simplifies it greatly.
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see all tweets older than 4 weeks
cat credentials | ./oldtweets.py
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see all liked tweets older than 4 weeks
cat credentials | ./oldtweets.py --likes
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print and delete from twitter tweets older than 4 weeks (oldest at the top)
cat credentials | ./oldtweets.py --delete >> mytweetsbackupfile.txt
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print and un-like liked tweets older than 4 weeks
cat credentials | ./oldtweets.py --delete --likes
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[FIXME] The tweets can still sometimes output in the wrong order, with some duplicates.
cat credentials | ./oldtweets.py | sort | uniq >> mytweetsbackupfile.txt
Based on a script by David Larlet (@davidbgk)
Code, documentation and improvements contributed by Olivier Thereaux (@olivierthereaux), Karl Dubost (@karlpro), Florent Verschelde (@fvsch), and Steve Frécinaux (@nud)