Suppose you need to do a copy & paste of a conversation you had on Twitter to send it by email. Unfortunately, it's very hard to copy & paste it in toto from either the app or the web. Twitter makes it as hard as possible to do so, especially if you wish the whole conversation.
Conversations are conveniently stored as JSON files, but... you need to get access to them.
One possible way to do so is the following:
- Ask Twitter for a link to an archive of all your data to be downloaded (they'll take up to 24 hours to provide you with it)
- Make sure
jq
is installed
- "862741-8538292" represents a conversation between two Twitter IDs (
recipientId
)
- You may have to massage the first line of
direct-messages.js
so that it reads