search your twitter archives

twitter-archive-search.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# expects you to have your twitter archive folders in $dir
# with folder names like "acct1 2019-01-26" so they sort nicely

set -euo pipefail
dir='path/to/archives'
accts='acct1 acct2'
query="$*"

for acct in $accts; do
  latest="$(find "$dir" -name "${acct}*" -type d -depth 1 | tail -1)/tweet.js"
  echo "***** $latest *****"
  sed -e '1 s/.*= //' "$latest" |
  jq -r ".[] | select(.full_text | match(\"$query\"; \"i\")) | \"https://twitter.com/$acct/statuses/\" + .id_str, .full_text, \"\""
done