issues

I've been using this project reliably over the past two years to periodically download my liked tweets, but unfortunately since 19th July I get:

[2023-07-19 21:00:04.937536] File "/home/pi/code/liked-tweets/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 202, in fetch_timeline [2023-07-19 21:00:04.937606] raise Exception(str(tweets["errors"])) [2023-07-19 21:00:04.937678] Exception: [{'message': 'You currently have access to a subset of Twitter API v2 endpoints and limited v1.1 endpoints (e.g. media post, oauth) only. If you need access to this endpoint, you may need a different access level. You can learn more here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/product', 'code': 453}]

It appears like Twitter has now shut down their v1 endpoints, which is rather gracious of them, considering they announced they'd be deprecated on 29th April.

Unfortunately retrieving likes using the v2 API is not part of their free plan. In fact, with the free plan one can only post and delete tweets and retrieve information about oneself.

So I'm afraid this is the end of this very nice project. It was very useful, thank you!

statuses-lookup, home-timeline, mentions (only for auth'ed user) don't cover this.

twitter-to-sqlite fetch-thread tw-group1.db 1234123412341234

twitter-to-sqlite focuses on archiving users, but does not easily support archiving conversations or community activity.

For reference, this is implemented in twarc, using a search, optionally recursively.

Other research suggests that this formerly, or currently, requires a search query, use of undocumented related_results api, or with requested inclusion of newer conversation_id with subsequent query.

I requested a Twitter export yesterday, and unfortunately they seem to have changed it such that twitter-to-sqlite import can't handle it anymore 😢

So far I've ran into two issues. The first was easy to work around, but the second will take more investigation. If I can find the time I'll keep working on it and update this issue accordingly.

The issues (so far):

1. Data seems to have moved to a data/ subdirectory

Running twitter-to-sqlite import on the raw zip file reports a bunch of "not yet implemented" errors, and then exits without actually importing anything:

❯ twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db twitter.zip ... data/manifest: not yet implemented data/account-creation-ip: not yet implemented data/account-suspension: not yet implemented ... (dozens of more lines like this, including critical stuff like data/tweets) ...

(tarchive.db now exists, but is empty)

Workaround: unpack the zip file, and run twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db path/to/archive/data

That gets further, but:

2. Some schema(s?) have changed

At least, the blocks schema seems different now:

❯ twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db archive/data direct-messages-group: not yet implemented branch-links: not yet implemented periscope-expired-broadcasts: not yet implemented direct-messages: not yet implemented mute: not yet implemented Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 772, in import_ archive.import_from_file(db, filepath.name, open(filepath, "rb").read()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 215, in import_from_file to_insert = transformer(data) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 115, in lists_member return {"lists-member": _list_from_common(data)} File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 200, in _list_from_common for url in block["userListInfo"]["urls"]: KeyError: 'urls'

That's as far as I got before I needed to work on something else. I'll report back if I get further!

Per Twitter documentation: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-started/about-twitter-api#v2-access-leve

This isn't any fault of twitter-to-sqlite of course, but it should probably be documented as a side-note.

And this is how I'm surfacing the message from utils.py:

My installation on Windows using pip has been successful. I have Python 3.6.

How do I run twitter-to-sqlite? I cannot even figure out how "auth" is a command. I have python on my path: C:\prog\python\Python36;C:\prog\python\Python36\Scripts

Where should the commands be executed, and where are the files created?

Could some basics please be added to the documentation to get beginners started?

Current list of commands: followers Save followers for specified user (defaults to... followers-ids Populate followers table with IDs of account followers friends-ids Populate followers table with IDs of account friends Obvious omission here is friends, which would be powered by https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/list.json: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-friends-list

hey Simon!

i was running twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline twitter.db for my private alt and ran into this error:

this looks awfully like #37 but it can't be, because i'm authed into my account and obviously i have perms to read my own account. wonder if there's any diagnostic methods i should apply here? just filing an issue for others to find while i investigate.

Per our conversation on Twitter:

It would be neat if all entities (including URLs) were captured. This way you can ensure, that URLs are parsed out exactly the same way Twitter parses URLs – we all know parsing URLs with a regex ain't fun.

Right now, I believe the tool filters out all entities that are not of type media.

Importing the twitter archive I received this error: bash $ twitter-to-sqlite import archive.db twitter-2021-12-31-<hash>.zip birdwatch-note-rating: not yet implemented birdwatch-note: not yet implemented branch-links: not yet implemented community-tweet: not yet implemented contact: not yet implemented device-token: not yet implemented direct-message-mute: not yet implemented mute: not yet implemented periscope-account-information: not yet implemented periscope-ban-information: not yet implemented periscope-broadcast-metadata: not yet implemented periscope-comments-made-by-user: not yet implemented periscope-expired-broadcasts: not yet implemented periscope-followers: not yet implemented periscope-profile-description: not yet implemented professional-data: not yet implemented protected-history: not yet implemented reply-prompt: not yet implemented screen-name-change: not yet implemented smartblock: not yet implemented spaces-metadata: not yet implemented sso: not yet implemented Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1128, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1053, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1659, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1395, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 754, in invoke return __callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 759, in import_ archive.import_from_file(db, filename, content) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 246, in import_from_file db[table_name].insert_all(rows, pk=pk, replace=True) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 2625, in insert_all self.insert_chunk( File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 2406, in insert_chunk result = self.db.execute(query, params) File "/home/paulox/.virtualenvs/dogsheep/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 422, in execute return self.conn.execute(sql, parameters) sqlite3.OperationalError: table archive_tweet has no column named withheld_in_countries

I found only a single tweet with the key withheld_in_countries in tweet.js that seems the problems: JSON [ { "tweet" : { "retweeted" : false, "source" : "<a href=\"http://twitter.com/download/android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter for Android</a>", "entities" : { "hashtags" : [ { "text" : "NowOnAndroid", "indices" : [ "64", "77" ] } ], "symbols" : [ ], "user_mentions" : [ { "name" : "Periscope", "screen_name" : "PeriscopeCo", "indices" : [ "3", "15" ], "id_str" : "1111111111", "id" : "222222222" } ], "urls" : [ { "url" : "https://t.co/xxxxxxxxx", "expanded_url" : "https://vine.co/v/xxxxxxxxx", "display_url" : "vine.co/v/xxxxxxxxxx", "indices" : [ "78", "101" ] } ] }, "display_text_range" : [ "0", "101" ], "favorite_count" : "0", "id_str" : "1111111111111111111111", "truncated" : false, "retweet_count" : "0", "withheld_in_countries" : [ "TR" ], "id" : "000000000000000000", "possibly_sensitive" : false, "created_at" : "Fri Aug 14 06:04:03 +0000 2015", "favorited" : false, "full_text" : "RT @periscopeco: Travel the world. LIVE. The Global Map is here #NowOnAndroid https://t.co/NZXdsPWROk", "lang" : "en" } } ]

I solved the error removing the key from the tweet.js but I'm reporting this error to improve the project.

Hi Simon,

It appears the fix for #57 doesn't fix things for me:

$ twitter-to-sqlite --version twitter-to-sqlite, version 0.21.4 $ python --version Python 3.9.6

$ twitter-to-sqlite home-timeline -a twitter-auth.json twitter/timeline.db --since Importing tweets Error: Use either --since or --since_id, not both

Is there any way I can help debug this?

I'm using the following command:

twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline -a twitter-auth.json twitter/tweets.db --since

Which gives the following error: Error: Use either --since or --since_id, not both

Running without --since.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1062, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1668, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 763, in invoke return __callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 317, in user_timeline for tweet in bar: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/_termui_impl.py", line 328, in generator for rv in self.iter: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 234, in fetch_user_timeline yield from fetch_timeline( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 202, in fetch_timeline raise Exception(str(tweets["errors"])) Exception: [{'code': 44, 'message': 'since_id parameter is invalid.'}]

Python 3.9.5 twitter-to-sqlite, version 0.21.3

In my database I have 13300 quote tweets, but eta 3600 have quoted_status empty.

I fetched some of them using https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=xx and they did have ids of quoted tweets.

Having support for --since for updating your favorites would be ideal as the api is both slow and it only returns ~3k most recent favorites.

https://twittercommunity.com/t/cant-get-all-favorite-tweets-by-rest-api/22007/3

The api seems to take an optional since_id parameter - https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/v1/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-favorites-list

I think it'd be very useful if this tool has an option like --incremental to fetch only newer tweets. This way operations could complete very fast in sequential runs. I'd want to try to implement this feature if it seems OK for this tool's purpose.

It's mentioned in passing in the README but it deserves its own section: $ twitter-to-sqlite fetch \ "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/account/verify_credentials.json" \ | grep '"id"' | head -n 1

For any number greater than 200, favorites --stop_after stops after getting 200 tweets, e.g. $ twitter-to-sqlite favorites tweets.db --stop_after=300 Importing favorites [####################################] 199 $ I don't think this is a limitation of the API (if you omit --stop_after you get some very large number, possibly all of them), so I think this is a bug.

Using https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc

got this with version 0.21.1 from pypi. twitter-to-sqlite auth worked but then "twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline USER.db" produced a tracekback ending in "no such module: FTS5".

% twitter-to-sqlite search infodemic.db '#infodemic' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('twitter-to-sqlite', 'console_scripts', 'twitter-to-sqlite')() File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/simon/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-PBRUqIv6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simon/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 867, in search for tweet in tweets: File "/Users/simon/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 165, in fetch_timeline [since_type_id, since_key], sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: since_ids

I keep seeing errors which I think are caused by authentication or rate limit problems but which appear to be unexpected JSON responses - presumably because they are actually an error message.

Recent example: https://github.com/simonw/jsk-fellows-on-twitter/runs/598892575

Using response.raise_for_status() everywhere will make these errors less confusing.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/create-manage-lists/api-reference/get-lists-ownerships

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/lists/ownerships.json

While running user-timeline I got this bug (because a screen name I asked for didn't exist): ``` File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 185, in transform_user user["created_at"] = parser.parse(user["created_at"]) KeyError: 'created_at'

import pdb pdb.pm() /Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py(185)transform_user() -> user["created_at"] = parser.parse(user["created_at"]) (Pdb) user {'errors': [{'code': 50, 'message': 'User not found.'}]} ```

$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline tweets.db --sql='select id from users' --ids Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('twitter-to-sqlite', 'console_scripts', 'twitter-to-sqlite')() File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 284, in user_timeline "@{:" + str(max(len(identifier) for identifier in identifiers)) + "}" File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 284, in <genexpr> "@{:" + str(max(len(identifier) for identifier in identifiers)) + "}" TypeError: object of type 'int' has no len() But this DID work - casting to strings: $ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline tweets.db --sql='select "" || id from users' --ids ... this worked ...

Got this excepion: File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 641, in extract_and_save_source details = m.groupdict() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groupdict' I traced it back to this tweet: https://twitter.com/osder/status/578712651393576960 ``` (Pdb) source_re re.compile('(?P<name>.*?)') (Pdb) locals()['source'] '' (Pdb) u

/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py(393)save_tweets() -> tweet["source"] = extract_and_save_source(db, tweet["source"]) (Pdb) tweet {'created_at': '2015-03-20T00:20:22+00:00', 'id': 578712651393576960, 'full_text': '@osder', 'truncated': False, 'display_text_range': [0, 6], 'source': '', 'in_reply_to_status_id': 578712521382715392, 'in_reply_to_user_id': 1545741, 'in_reply_to_screen_name': 'osder', 'geo': None, 'coordinates': None, 'place': None, 'contributors': None, 'is_quote_status': False, 'retweet_count': 0, 'favorite_count': 0, 'favorited': False, 'retweeted': False, 'lang': 'und', 'user': 1545741} ```

This shouldn't happen in the since_ids table (relates to #39):

We currently over-write the follower count every time we import a tweet (when we import that user profile again):

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/810cb2af5a175837204389fd7f4b5721f8b325ab/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py#L293-L294

It would be neat if we noticed if that user's follower count (and maybe other counts?) had changed since we last saved them and recorded that change in a separate history table. This would be an inexpensive way of building up rough charts of follower count over time.

Progress bars and the --silent option are implemented inconsistently across commands at the moment.

This is made more challenging by the fact that for many operations the total length is not known.

https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/api/#click.progressbar

If you run twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline ... --since it's supposed to fetch Tweets those specific users tweeted since last time the command was run.

It does this by seeking out the max ID of their previous tweets:

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/810cb2af5a175837204389fd7f4b5721f8b325ab/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L305-L311

BUT... this has a nasty flaw: if another account had retweeted one of their recent tweets the retweeted-tweet will have been loaded into the database - so we may treat that as the most recent since ID and miss a bunch of their tweets!

Say you want to fetch Twitter profiles for a list of accounts that are stored in another database:

$ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup users.db --attach attending.db \
    --sql "select Twitter from attending.attendes where Twitter is not null"

The SQL query you feed in is expected to return a list of screen names suitable for processing further by the command.

Should be supported by all three of:

• [x] twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup
• [x] twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline
• [x] twitter-to-sqlite followers and friends

The --attach option allows other SQLite databases to be attached to the connection. Without it the SQL query will have to read from the single attached database.

Split from #8. The friends and followers commands don't yet support --sql and --attach.

(friends-ids and followers-ids do though).

CDPHE [####################################] 67 CHFSKy [####################################] 3216 DHSWI [####################################] 41 DPHHSMT [####################################] 742 Delaware_DHSS [####################################] 3231 DhhsNevada [####################################] 639 I could format them to match the length of the longest screen name instead.

Split from #8.

$ twitter-to-sqlite user-timeline data.db --screen_name Allen_Joines Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('twitter-to-sqlite', 'console_scripts', 'twitter-to-sqlite')() File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 256, in user_timeline utils.save_tweets(db, chunk) File "/Users/simonw/Dropbox/Development/twitter-to-sqlite/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 289, in save_tweets db["users"].upsert(user, pk="id", alter=True) File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1128, in upsert conversions=conversions, File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1157, in upsert_all upsert=True, File "/Users/simonw/.local/share/virtualenvs/twitter-to-sqlite-4ech4lJi/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1096, in insert_all row = list(self.rows_where("rowid = ?", [self.last_rowid]))[0] IndexError: list index out of range

It looks like I forgot to document this one in the README.

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/6ebd482619bd94180e54bb7b56549c413077d329/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L183-L194

If a file in the export is empty (in my case it was account-suspensions.js), twitter-to-sqlite import fails:

$ twitter-to-sqlite import twitter.db ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-11-06-926f4f3be4b3b1fcb1aa387c40cd14f7c8aaf9bbcdb2d78ac14d9989add501bb.zip Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 627, in import_ archive.import_from_file(db, filename, content) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 224, in import_from_file db[table_name].upsert_all(rows, hash_id="pk") File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1113, in upsert_all extracts=extracts, File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 980, in insert_all first_record = next(records) StopIteration

This appears to be because db.upsert_all is called with no rows -- I think?

I hacked around this by modifying import_from_file to have an if rows: clause:

for table, rows in to_insert.items(): if rows: table_name = "archive_{}".format(table.replace("-", "_")) ...

I'm happy to work up a real PR if that's the right approach, but I'm not sure it is.

select follower_id from following where followed_id = 12497 takes over a second for me at the moment.

Trying to run twitter-to-sqlite followers errors out:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 130, in followers go(bar.update) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 116, in go utils.save_users(db, [profile]) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 302, in save_users transform_user(user) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 181, in transform_user user["created_at"] = parser.parse(user["created_at"]) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 1374, in parse return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 646, in parse res, skipped_tokens = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 725, in _parse l = _timelex.split(timestr) # Splits the timestr into tokens File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 207, in split return list(cls(s)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 76, in __init__ '{itype}'.format(itype=instream.__class__.__name__)) TypeError: Parser must be a string or character stream, not datetime

This appears to be because https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L111 calls transform_user, and then https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L116 calls transform_user again, which fails because the user is already transformed.

I was able to work around this by commenting out https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L116.

Shall I work up a patch for that, or is there a better approach?

$ twitter-to-sqlite search dogsheep

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-statuses-retweets_of_me

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-mentions_timeline

Almost identical to home-timeline #18 but it uses https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/mentions_timeline.json instead.

I want to run a cron that updates my Twitter database every X minutes.

It should be able to retrieve the following without needing to paginate through everything:

• [x] Tweets I have tweeted
• [x] My home timeline (see #19)
• [x] Tweets I have favourited

It would be nice if this could be standardized across all commands as a --since option.

Needed for #12. This is going to be an incredibly simple version of the Django migration system.

• A migrations table, keeping track of which migrations were applied (and when)
• A migrate() function which applies any pending migrations
• A MIGRATIONS constant which is a list of functions to be applied

The function names will be detected and used as the names of the migrations.

Every time you run the CLI tool it will call the migrate() function before doing anything else.

Needs to take into account that there might be no tables at all. As such, migration functions should sanity check that the tables they are going to work on actually exist.

Is it possible for these lines to run against a database table that already has these foreign keys?

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/c9295233f219c446fa2085cace987067488a31b9/twitter_to_sqlite/migrations.py#L21-L22

It's pretty bulky and ugly at the moment:

Currently every time you run home-timeline we pull all 800 available tweets. We should offer to support since_id (which can be provided or can be pulled directly from the database) in order to work more efficiently if this command is executed e.g. on a cron.

Currently you can only import like this:

$ twitter-to-sqlite import path-to-twitter.zip

It would be useful if you could import from a folder that was decompressed from that zip:

$ twitter-to-sqlite import path-to-twitter/

AND from individual files within that folder - since that would allow you to e.g. selectively import certain files:

$ twitter-to-sqlite import path-to-twitter/favorites.js path-to-twitter/tweets.js

Shouldn't be storing & here.

This code currently just dumps them into the tweets table without recording who it was who had favorited them.

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/436a170d74ec70903d1b4ca430c2c6b6435cdfcc/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L152-L157

Feature request: https://twitter.com/johankj/status/1182563563136868352

Would it be possible to save all tweets in my timeline from the last X days? I would love to see how big a percentage some users are of my daily timeline as a metric on whether I should unfollow them/move them to a list.

Can have a CLI option for NOT doing that.

https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/fb2698086d766e0333a55bb73435e7283feeb438/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py#L98-L99

Twitter lets you export all of your data as an archive file: https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data

A command for importing this data into SQLite would be extremely useful.

$ twitter-to-sqlite import twitter.db path-to-archive.zip

For bulk retrieving tweets by their ID.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/post-and-engage/api-reference/get-statuses-lookup

Rate limit is 900/15 minutes (1 call per second) but each call can pull up to 100 IDs, so we can pull 6,000 per minute.

Should support --SQL and --attach #8

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/filter-realtime/api-reference/post-statuses-filter

We can support tracking keywords and following specific users.

These will import follower and friendship IDs into the following tables, using these APIs:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-followers-ids https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-friends-ids

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/follow-search-get-users/api-reference/get-users-lookup https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json?user_id=783214,6253282 https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/lookup.json?screen_name=simonw,cleopaws CLI design: $ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup simonw cleopaws $ twitter-to-sqlite users-lookup 783214 6253282 --ids

Right now twitter-to-sqlite followers dumps everything in a followers table, and doesn't actually record which account they are following!

It should instead save them all in a global users table and then set up m2m relationships in a following table. This also means it should create a record for the specified user in order to record both sides of each relationship.

Twitter only allows up to 3,200 tweets to be retrieved from https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/timelines/api-reference/get-statuses-user_timeline.html

I'm going to do:

$ twitter-to-sqlite tweets simonw

I can use betamax for this: https://pypi.org/project/betamax/