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Wayback Tweets
Retrieves archived tweets CDX data from the Wayback Machine, performs necessary parsing (see Field Options), and saves the data in HTML, for easy viewing of the tweets using the iframe tags, CSV, and JSON formats.
Installation
pip install waybacktweets
Quickstart
Using Wayback Tweets as a standalone command line tool
waybacktweets [OPTIONS] USERNAME
waybacktweets --from 20150101 --to 20191231 --limit 250 jack
Using Wayback Tweets as a Web App
Open the application, a prototype written in Python with the Streamlit framework and hosted on Streamlit Cloud.
Using Wayback Tweets as a Python Module
from waybacktweets import WaybackTweets, TweetsParser, TweetsExporter
USERNAME = "jack"
api = WaybackTweets(USERNAME)
archived_tweets = api.get()
if archived_tweets:
field_options = [
"archived_timestamp",
"original_tweet_url",
"archived_tweet_url",
"archived_statuscode",
]
parser = TweetsParser(archived_tweets, USERNAME, field_options)
parsed_tweets = parser.parse()
exporter = TweetsExporter(parsed_tweets, USERNAME, field_options)
exporter.save_to_csv()
Documentation
Acknowledgements
- Tristan Lee (Bellingcat's Data Scientist) for the idea of the application.
- Jessica Smith (Snowflake's Community Growth Specialist) and Streamlit/Snowflake team for the additional server resources on Streamlit Cloud.
- OSINT Community for recommending the application.
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