https://github.com/rknightuk/twitter-to-micro-blog
Script to extract tweets from a Twitter archive to markdown to import into Micro.blog
https://github.com/rknightuk/twitter-to-micro-blog
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Script to extract tweets from a Twitter archive to markdown to import into Micro.blog
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rknightuk/twitter-to-micro-blog
- Owner: rknightuk
- Created: 2022-11-17T08:57:56.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-23T14:12:16.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-03T22:08:42.505Z (5 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 827 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# Twitter to Micro.blog
Convert tweets from a Twitter achive into markdown posts to import into Micro.blog (or anywhere really).
So this:
Becomes:
`1583079656760410112.md`
```
---
date: 2022-10-20T13:56:19+00:00
categories: Imported Tweets
---
"You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me"
```
### Requirements
- Node - It was tested with node version 14.7 because that's what I had set at the time but should work with any recent version.
- A Twitter archive ([How to download your Twitter archive and Tweets](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive))
## Usage
Note: This script does not interact with the Twitter API so all tweets you want to convert must be in your archive.
[Download your Twitter archive](https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive), unzip it and find `data/tweet.js`. Open that file and remove the `window.YTD.tweet.part0 = ` part from the top of the file. Rename it to `tweets.json` and move it into the root of this project. You then have two options:
### 1a. Convert all tweets in your archive
Set `convertAllTweets` to `true` in `index.js`
### 1b. Convert selected tweets
Get the tweet IDs you want to import and add them to the `idsToFind` array at the top of `index.js`. Tweet IDs are the last part of a tweet URL: https://twitter.com/username/status/**1583079656760410112**. It should then look something like this:
```
const idsToFind = [
'1583079656760410112',
]
```
### 2. Set categories
The script defaults to setting the category as "Import Tweets" but you can leave it blank to have no categories, or add multiple comma-separated:
```
// One category
const categories = "Imported Tweets, My Custom Category"
// Multiple categories
const categories = "Imported Tweets, My Custom Category"
// No category
// const categories = ""
```
### 3. Convert
Run `node index.js` and your selected tweets will be output into `/export` (replies will be output to `/export/replies`):
```
/export
1583079656760410112.md
/replies
1583079656760410114.md
```
## Contributing
If something is broken with how this works then by all means submit a pull request however this script works for my exact purpose - it's mostly here for reference in case someone else wants to do something similar.