HEADS UP BAKER
### For Twitter mirroring
### Another method for Twitter mirroring
# Twitter: Scrape / download a user's tweets on OS X
Isn't real pretty but it worked for me
Doesn't require a twitter API key
Scrapes twitter search instead
Most steps are performed in an OS X Terminal/shell
Requires basic shell experience
### Install homebrew
https://brew.sh/
### Install jq
brew install jq
### Install TweetScraper
https://github.com/jonbakerfish/TweetScraper
cd ~/Downloads/
git clone https://github.com/jonbakerfish/TweetScraper.git
cd TweetScraper/
pip install -r requirements.txt
### Run TweetScraper
Here, SaRaAshcraft
, is an example twitter user name
scrapy crawl TweetScraper -a query="from:SaRaAshcraft"
cd Data/tweet/
find . -type f -print0 | while read -d $'\0' file; do jq 'select((.is_reply==false) and .is_retweet==false) | .text' $file ; done > ../saraashcraft-all.txt
### Open your new text file
Use any text editor to open your new saraashcraft-all.txt
file
vim ../saraashcraft-all.txt