How to generate a Twitter user's unique tweet URL's, and then feed them into ArchiveBot to be saved

get-tweets.md

Set up Tweep

1. Download the file tweep.py from GitHub - https://github.com/haccer/tweep

2. Put it in a brand new folder. Let's call the folder "Tweep". So the full path here would be, as an example, /Users/asparagirl/Desktop/Tweep

3. Add a folder inside of that one called tmp. So the full path here would be, as an example, /Users/asparagirl/Desktop/Tweep/tmp

4. Edit tweep.py slightly to add logging and stop it from getting images from tweets. The top of the file should be edited to look like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from time import gmtime, strftime
# from PIL import Image
from io import BytesIO
import argparse

...etc.

5. Install tweep's dependencies:

• pip install beautifulsoup4
• pip install requests
• pip install lxml

(You may need to do sudo pip instead of just pip, depending on your system.)

Run Tweep to start collecting Tweets

1. Run

python tweep.py -u TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE > /Users/asparagirl/Desktop/Tweep/tmp/TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE

2. You should see the screen filling with log data. The tweets will be stored in a text file called TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE inside the tmp sub-directory.

3. Now we need to parse that text file and just get the full Twitter status URL's, and discard the actual text of the tweets. Run:

awk '{print "https://twitter.com/" substr($5, 2, length($5) - 2) "/status/" $1}' /Users/asparagirl/Desktop/Tweep/tmp/TWITTER-USERNAME-HERE | pbcopy -selection clipboard

4. This will copy to your clipboard the list of tweets!

5. Paste that data to pastebin or whatever you need.