Wayback Tweets

Retrieves archived tweets CDX data from the Wayback Machine, performs necessary parsing (see Field Options), and saves the data in HTML (for easy viewing of the tweets using the iframe tag), CSV, and JSON formats.

Installation

pip install waybacktweets

Quickstart

Using Wayback Tweets as a standalone command line tool

waybacktweets [OPTIONS] USERNAME

waybacktweets --from 20150101 --to 20191231 --limit 250 jack

Using Wayback Tweets as a Web App

Open the application, a prototype written in Python with the Streamlit framework and hosted on Streamlit Cloud.

Using Wayback Tweets as a Python Module

from waybacktweets import WaybackTweets, TweetsParser, TweetsExporter

USERNAME = "jack"

api = WaybackTweets(USERNAME)
archived_tweets = api.get()

if archived_tweets:
    field_options = [
        "archived_timestamp",
        "original_tweet_url",
        "archived_tweet_url",
        "archived_statuscode",
    ]

    parser = TweetsParser(archived_tweets, USERNAME, field_options)
    parsed_tweets = parser.parse()

    exporter = TweetsExporter(parsed_tweets, USERNAME, field_options)
    exporter.save_to_csv()

Documentation

• Wayback Tweets documentation
• Wayback CDX Server API (Beta) documentation

Acknowledgements

• Tristan Lee (Bellingcat's Data Scientist) for the idea of the application.
• Jessica Smith (Snowflake's Marketing Specialist) and Streamlit/Snowflake teams for the additional server resources on Streamlit Cloud.
• OSINT Community for recommending the application.

Note

If the Streamlit application is down, please check the Streamlit Cloud Status.