When you download your Twitter archive you can't easily host it as it contains a lot of private information, from DMs to personal information. The goal of this project is to create a light, fast, and public version of your Twitter archive.
There are a number of assumptions made in this gudie.
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This assumes you have already requested and ldoaladed a ZIP file of your Twitter archive form the service.
- In my case the zip file as 1.8GB in size.
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You have PHP installed and know how to run scripts.
- PHP has its own development server, you can use that. https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
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Download or checkout this reposirory.
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Copy the contents of your Twitter archive into ths same folder. The filesystem should look a little like this:
- assets
- data
- Your archive.html
- build-public-archive.php
- public
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Run the PHP script...
- There are a few ways to do this.
- If you have PHP installed, using Terminal, you can navigate to the folder
- Enter
php -S localhost:5050 - Run the script at http://localhost:5050/build-public-archive.php
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Copy (or move)
data/tweets_mediatopublic/tweets_media -
Copy (or move)
assets/fontstopublic/assets/fonts
Everything within the public folder is intended to be made public. Depending on the amount of images and videos this could take a awhile. Its worth updating any folder or file permissions before uploading. tweets_media folder should be 755, and the files 644.
Do not upload the 'build-public-archive.php' script. Delete it.
- Forgot to copy over icon fonts as part of it.
- Frontend rendering only supports 1 image or video in tweets.
- Terrible instructions.
- Allow links to individiual tweets via URL hash
- Explore adding a simple search/filter
- Non-PHP versions of build script (no reason it must be PHP)
- Expand tweet layout formats
- Better lazy-loading