i wanted to get off of twitter because of.... everything before the whole thing goes even more to shit. i really liked the memes and community on twitter but i couldn't justify having an account. i still have twitter and instagram, but afetr the whole meta thing i am lowkey wondering if any social media is worthwhile. here's how i got all my tweets and precious twitter memes without downloading each one individually. here are the steps:
unzip twitter-download1234.zipi used wfdownloader to grab all the images i had ever retweeted. the website is packed with tutorials and it was very helpful. it took a while and i was pretty scared of being kicked off my twitter account right before i deleted it ;_;
i had to use the Get cookies.txt LOCALLY extension to get my cookies from twitter.
i really wanted to make a big folder of my twitter images so i could scroll through a big folder of memes and art. i didn't want to lose any of the image credits though, since the folders were arranged like this:
twitter
>twittermedia
>>randomtweet.json
>>randomaccount1
>>>randomjpg.jpg
>>randomaccount2
>>>randomjpg2.jpg
idk if this was just because i had a bad setup for wfdownloader but my solution was a quick bash one-liner to move all images outside of the folder while renaming them. then i can delete all the folders and keep my twittermedia file full of .json tweets that i've retweeted and all of the images i've retweeted as well.
you should run this in the folder that contains all your subfolders, so in this case i ran mine in "twitter/twittermedia"
for folder in *; do for f in $folder/*; do mv $f "$folder"_"$(basename $f)"; done; done
then just run this to delete all those empty folders
rm -R -- */
and there we have it... one big folder full of all the images and art that i collected during my long stint on twitter. if you run this...
ls | wc -l
you can see how many images and tweets you retweeted or posted. mine was at 4086!
that's all for today!