Given a Twitter Archive folder, dump every original (i.e. not retweeted) text in the folder.

dump_tweets.hy

#!/usr/bin/env hy

                                ; As quick and dirty as it gets.  Tested on hy 0.17
                                ; [hy](http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/index.html)

(require [hy.extra.anaphoric [ap-each ap-reduce ap-map ap-filter]])
(require [hy.contrib.walk [let]])
(import json os)

(defn file-list []
  (->> (os.listdir ".")
     (ap-filter (and (= (cut (.lower it) 0 2) "20")  ; This will stop working in the 21st century.
                     (= (cut (.lower it) -3) ".js")))))

(defn tweets [filename]
  (let [f (open filename "r")]
    (.readline f)                     ; Skip opening "Grailbird" line; this makes it parsable as JSON
    (.loads json (.read f))))

(let [words (->>
              (file-list)
              (list)
              (sorted)
              (map tweets)                    ; convert list of files into list of lists of tweets
              (chain.from_iterable)           ; flatten list
              (filter (fn [t] (not (in "retweet_status" t)))) ; remove retweets
              (map (fn [t] (get t "text"))))] ; return text
  (ap-each words (print it))) 
         
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