joenotcharles / get_twitter_likes

get_twitter_likes

Installation requirements:

1. python3
2. tweepy
   • Easiest with pip3 install tweepy
   • Or download from https://www.tweepy.org/

One-time setup:

1. Sign up for a Twitter developer account (https://developer.twitter.com/)

2. Create a new app.

3. Go to "Keys and tokens" / "Access Token and Secret", and click "Generate", which will open a popup with all your tokens.

   • "Access Token" should be something like 1234567890-abc123XYZ. The part before the dash, which is all numbers, is your user ID.

4. Copy all the values from the popup into creds.py (you can use creds.py.example as a template):

   user_id = 'User ID (numeric part of Access Token)'
   consumer_key = 'API Key'
   consumer_secret = 'API Key Secret'
   bearer_token = 'Bearer Token'
   access_token = 'Access Token'
   access_token_secret = 'Access Token Secret'
   

To use:

• python3 get_likes.py <filename.json>

  • Downloads all your likes and saves them in the given JSON file.

• python3 get_media.py <filename.json>

  • Scans a file saved with get_likes.py for links to photos and videos, downloads them and saves them to disk in a directory named resources.