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Mincka / DMArchiver

A tool to archive the direct messages, images and videos from your private conversations on Twitter
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Crashes after login #50

Closed Elhazet closed 6 years ago

Elhazet commented 6 years ago

After login, DMArchiver crashed several times. Using my @_name eventually worked but then it began crawling from the very beginning. This is a very long DM conversation (2 years (!) now), so Twitter did not like that and locked my account.

I only needed an incremental update to get the last two weeks of this conversation. Hope this will be possible soon. (Windows 7)

Mincka commented 6 years ago

Hi, what do you mean by "it crashed"? Do you have any error message?

For your lockout issue, try to run it with the parameter "-s". You should not have additional lockouts after the first one.

The crawling starts from the latest tweets to the oldest ones. Incremental update is automatic when possible.

Elhazet commented 6 years ago

Hi, by "it crashed" I mean that the window closes en DMArchiver stops, just the way it does after a failed login.
This went so quickly that I couldn't read any error message.

Now, after a few failed logins, it also did while it was already 15-20 minutes working. I guess Twitter didn't like that.

Also my conversationpartner lost my DM's for about 12 hours after this happened. That was a bit scary for me. But they're back now. :)

Mincka commented 6 years ago

Use the tool in a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (macos) like this: dmarchiver -s -t 5

It will slow down the script (5-seconds pause between requests) and keep the session cookies between the runs.

Elhazet commented 6 years ago

It worked. Thanks a lot!