Generates a search URL for twitter.com to retrieve tweets on this day by a given user and opens results in system default browser

twitter_otd.py

"""
Generates a search URL for twitter.com to retrieve tweets on this day (#OTD)
by a given user and opens results in system default browser

Usage:
    python ./twitter_otd.py

Author:
    Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher)
"""

# SET PARAMS ====================================
twitter_handle          = 'joedgallagher'
year_you_joined_twitter = 2013
# /END ==========================================


import webbrowser
from datetime import date
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

# generate search url
year_today = int(f'{date.today():%Y}')
url = f'https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3A{twitter_handle}%20-filter%3Areplies%20'

for yrs in range(1, year_today - year_you_joined_twitter + 1):
    if yrs != 1:
        url += "%20OR%20"
        
    since_date = f'{date.today() - relativedelta(years=yrs):%Y-%m-%d}'
    until_date = f'{date.today() - relativedelta(years=yrs, days=-1):%Y-%m-%d}'
        
    url += f'(since%3A{since_date}%20until%3A{until_date})'

# open in system default browser
webbrowser.get().open(url)