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#Twitter archive data how to
#Twitter archive data install
#Twitter archive data zip file

The picture above shows how to set it for Cloudflare, but it will be very similar in other providers. To do this we will only have to create a CNAME DNS record with the value of the subdomain ( tweets in this case) pointing to your GitHub domain that will be in the format GITHUB_ where GITHUB_HANDLE will be your handle/username in GitHub ( in my case).ĬNAME DNS record pointing to GitHub pages In this tutorial we will be using GitHub Pages to host our twitter archive, so since in my case I have the domain v managed by Cloudflare, I will create a subdomain called to point to the GitHub pages deployment. (Optional) Configuring a subdomain to point to our GitHub Pages deployment # Note: change the pathPrefix accordingly to the path you want. Įdit this file to change the first line 0 to module.exports (a simple replace) so the first part of the file will look as follows: module.

#Twitter archive data zip file

įollowing the instructions of Tweetback, open the zip file you downloaded from Twitter, and extract the data/tweets.js file from it into the database folder in your Tweetback repository folder.

#Twitter archive data install

Įnter to the repository main folder with the terminal and perform a npm install (this will generate a package-lock.json file you will keep).

Note: if you choose creating a fork, the process of updating the repository for possible future changes from the base repository its easier with the "sync fork" option that GitHub provides. Note that you will need to have Node.js installed (and Git of course).Ĭlone the repo (or your fork): git clone In my case I just forked the repository but you can clone it and upload it to other site if you want. Getting the Tweetback code and setting it up # zip file as soon as you receive the email and save it somewhere (as the links expires shortly). so let's relax and keep with the process. Twitter settings page after requesting your archiveĪfter taking this action, Twitter will collect your data and send you an email with a link to a.

Click on "Download an archive of your data".

Click More in the main navigation menu to the left of your timeline.

Twitter allows you to export a backup of all of your data you have in this platform.Īs they explain in their help center, log in into your Twitter account (Web client) and: This part is important to initialize our archive. Getting your Twitter archive in first place # The process to make your own archive is simple.

Thanks to Zach Leatherman and its awesome project Tweetback, we can self host our own Twitter archive and keeping it up-to-date if necessary ( just like I have done with mine). An awesome project by Zach Leatherman to take ownership of your Twitter data in a public archive you can self-host (for example in GitHub). In this case it is where Tweetback come into action. why not just keeping it safe for the future?

Cover image generated by DALL-E 2 ("3D render of several tweets in a man hands on a dark blue background, digital art")ĭue to the "recent" acquisition of Twitter and all changes that came after that, lots of users started considering other alternatives such as Mastodon, Tumblr, Nostr and many others.īut what happens to the generated data over the years we have been making in this platform, what do we make with them? Discarding them? My thoughts on this are.