Convert a file of tweets into a file of fortunes as used by Unix fortune(1) and Emacs cookie-mode.

tweets-to-fortunes.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import json
import argparse
import re

# source files from https://github.com/bpb27/trump_tweet_data_archive
# Removes URLs since M-x cookie-doctor gets confused by them

argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Convert from JSON array of condensed tweets to cookie format')
argparser.add_argument('file', help='JSON file')
args = argparser.parse_args()

with open(args.file, 'rb') as fp:
    tweets = json.load(fp)
    for t in tweets:
        content = t['text']
        content = re.sub(r"http\S+", "", content)
        print(content, end='\0')