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Mincka / DMArchiver

A tool to archive the direct messages, images and videos from your private conversations on Twitter
GNU General Public License v3.0
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A nit in the README #82

Open burtonsys opened 4 years ago

burtonsys commented 4 years ago

The README.md file currently says, "You may have found suggestions to use the Twitter's archive feature to do the same but Direct Messages are not included in the generated archive."

That appears to no longer be accurate. Today I downloaded my Twitter archive, and the Direct Messages are included in the following file, within the .zip archive:

data/direct-messages.js

(Note: despite the ".js" [Javascript] extension, it's actually a JSON file.)

I don't know whether or not it is always complete. I only have about 140 Direct Messages, and only a few in any one conversation. So if they're only including the most recent 200 within a conversation I would not know it.

bra189 commented 4 years ago

Is there a way to read the messages from direct-messages.js? In the file it has a bunch of numbers after conversation id, sender id, etc. it’s all in numbers and doesn’t show the actual messages from the direct messages and if I want to view these conversations, how do I do so? Is there somewhere I type in these conversation ids at?