Oh My Old Tweet

A graceful, powerful and easy-to-use tool to see old (including deleted) tweets.

Use it in browser

1. Visit our site
2. Fill the input box with username you want to query
3. Click Start
4. Enjoy

Deploy on your own server

Prerequisites:

• Docker and docker-compose

Steps:

1. Download the deploy.zip and unzip it
2. cd deploy && docker compose up -d
3. Visit http://your-server-ip:3142

Notice

DO NOT expose the port 3142 to the public network. Currently we don't have any security mechanism.

Use cli

We provide a cli for experimental use.

Prerequisites:

1. Clone this repo
2. Run yarn to install dependencies
3. Run yarn build to build the project

Use cli from twitter-data-parser

1. cd twitter-data-parser
2. yarn cli <archived-url>, e.g.

   yarn cli https://web.archive.org/web/20220306095655/https://twitter.com/_iori_n/status/523389174242488320
   

3. Extracted data will be printed to the console

Use cli to find old usernames

For a given username, we try to find all old usernames of this user. This is useful when a user has changed his/her username.

1. cd omot-cli
2. yarn build
3. yarn start -s <username>, e.g.

   yarn start -s _iori_n
   

4. When program exits, the result will be printed to the console

NOTE: This is an experimental feature and may not work properly. This calculation may takes non-trivial time. You can run <ctrl>+c to stop the process, and the result will be printed to the console.

How it works

Internet Archive has crawled tons of twitter status (tweets) since 2006. We'll find all tweets belonging to your target user in the Internet Archive.

Notices

• Internet Archive may not have crawled all tweets. Especially, from 2023.06, Twitter has changed its policy and Internet Archive may not be able to actively crawl tweets.
• For most cases, Internet Archive cannot crawl video in tweets. We don't implement video feature for now. However, in some cases, Internet Archive may have crawled video in tweets. We plan to implement this feature in the future.
• Internet Archive may not be able to save NSFW tweets.
• Currently, we don't properly handle retweets and replies (You can contribute!).

To-do List

• Date
• Engagement info
• Profile image and content
• User avatar
• Retweets
• Replies
• Paging (Test with Donald Trump's data)
• Self-hosing backend
• Video support
• Crawling directly from Twitter
• Load tweets from gallery-dl's output