It looks like Twitter is imploding and even though I don’t think that it will go down permanently it seemed like a good time to export data so that I have a local backup available. Usually I just ask Twitter to export my data but this time I needed additional data as I was preparing a backup that would work even when Twitter was down completely. The Twitter Export didn’t give me all the data I wanted, specifically I needed an export of the following which wasn’t there in the official export:
- Owned Lists (Including Followers and Members of the list)
- Subscribed Lists with Followers and Members of the List
- List of all Followers (ScreenName, Fullname and ID)
- List of all Following (ScreenName, Funnname and ID)
So I created a script that exports the above. It is available for download at: Github: TwitterExtract. Instructions for installation and running are there in the ReadMe file.
This was created as a quick and dirty solution so it is not productionalized (i.e. it doesn’t have a lot of error checking, hardening etc) but it does what it is supposed to do. Check it out and let me know what you think. Bug Fixes and additional features are welcome…
– Suramya