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timhutton / twitter-archive-parser

Python code to parse a Twitter archive and output in various ways
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Feature request: download list of usernames and display names of followers and followings #158

Closed PropertyOfMyCat closed 1 year ago

PropertyOfMyCat commented 1 year ago

The data directory contained in the archive contains follower.js and following.js files that contain account IDs but not usernames or display names. I'd like the parser to crawl these files, retrieve this information, and output it into two files — JSON, CSV; doesn't really matter what format. Downloading the profile pictures would be a nice addition.

The use case for this I'd like to do a diff between lists of followers and followings obtained at different times, because this seems to be the only way to monitor which of my friends has deactivated. There are tools that I use that tell me who has unfollowed me, but I'd like to know who has left Twitter. My follower count is going down primarily because of account deactivations, not unfollowings, but I don't have a way of keeping track of who they are.

PropertyOfMyCat commented 1 year ago

Oops, sorry, I just saw that the script already does this! My bad!