tw-get-likes

#!/bin/sh
#
# usage: tw-get-likes twitter_username
#
# Requires:
# * twurl
# * jq
#
# The API is rate-limited to 75 calls in a 15 minute window
# but this doesn't handle rate limit error returns. Who has 15k likes anyway?

max_id=-1
n=0

screen_name=$1

if [ -z "$screen_name" ]; then
  echo "Screen name parameter missing"
  exit 111
fi

# Start without specifying a max_id
# This will give is the most recent 200 likes
# Get the id (or id_str) of the oldest "like" in the list
# This is probably the last one in the json array
#   but we could sort by ID to be sure then use '.[-1]'
# If the array is empty, we're done.
#   verified with 'drench': no likes returns just '[]'
# Subtract 1 from this id and use it as the max_id value for the next call

while true; do
  outfile=out/$screen_name-likes-$n.json
  url="/1.1/favorites/list.json?screen_name=$screen_name&include_entities=false&count=200"

  if [ $max_id -gt 0 ]; then
    url="${url}&max_id=$max_id"
  fi

  echo "calling $url and sending output to $outfile"
  twurl $url > $outfile

  record_count=$(jq 'length' < $outfile)
  if [ $record_count = "0" ]; then
    echo "done"
    rm $outfile
    break
  fi

  max_id=$(jq '.[-1].id' < $outfile)
  echo "max_id is now '$max_id'. Sleeping…"
  ((max_id--))
  ((n++))
  sleep 10
done

if [ -e out/$screen_name-likes-0.json ]; then
  cat out/$screen_name-likes-*.json |
    jq -s add |
    jq -S '.[] | "https://twitter.com/" + .user.screen_name + "/status/" + .id_str' > out/$screen_name-likes.json
fi

Reference: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-favorites-list