static_tl 0.2

Take control of your tweets

What is it?

It’ a tool that makes sure your TL won’t be gone for ever if for some reason twitter decides to no longer play nice.

In a way, it also makes it possible to:

• edit your tweets

• have them longer than 140 characters

Show me!

Here’s an example of static_tl in action:

http://dmerej.info/tweets

How to use it ?

• Install Python3 and then install static_tl with pip

• Create an app on http://apps.twitter.com

• Edit ~/.config/static_tl.cfg to have something like:

  [static_tl]
  user = <user>
  api_key = <Consumer Key>
  api_secret = <Consumer Secret>
  token = <Access Token>
  token_secret = <Access Token Secret>

• Then run:

  static-tl get

This will generate some tweets-<year>-<month>.json files with your recent tweets.

For instance, if your run it on 2016 October 10, you’ll get two files:

• tweets-2016-09.json (all the tweets from September)

• tweets-2016-10.json (all the tweets from October so far)

Of course, the last file will be overridden when you’ll re-run the script in November.

So keep these .json somewhere safe, you’ll need them later, and remember to re-run static-tl get at least once a month.

• Then, when you are ready you can generate a completely static copy of your TL with:

  static-tl gen

(By static, we mean that it’s possible to upload those html files wherever you want so it’s extremely easy to publish your new TL on the web)

The best part is that since you have a copy of all your tweets as .json files, it’s easy to edit them :)

Permalinks

If you want to generate permalinks, simply set site_url in the config file:

[static_tl]
site_url = http://example.com/tweets