{"id":1528,"date":"2010-09-21T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T13:25:12","slug":"ozh-tweet-archiver-backup-twitter-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/my-projects\/ozh-tweet-archiver-backup-twitter-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozh&#8217; Tweet Archiver (Backup Twitter With WordPress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current version : <em>2.0<\/em> &#8211; compatible with Twitter&#39;s OAuth API<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to browse your own tweet history, Twitter sucks. If you have published more than 3200 tweets, Twitter lost the older ones. If you want to search a particular tweet about that awesome link you shared, you&#39;re toast. You can use #hashtags in your tweets but they won&#39;t be of any use to help you organize them. Oh, and those horrible <tt>t.co<\/tt> links.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, WordPress does all this fine, so I made a plugin to archive all your tweets in WordPress, easily search them, and everything you wish Twitter would do.<\/p>\n<h2>Live Example<\/h2>\n<p>My tweet archive: <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/tweets\/\">Ozh&#39; Tweets<\/a> (notice the cool stats in the sidebar)<\/p>\n<h2>Download<\/h2>\n<div class=\"download\">\nDownload the plugin :<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ozh-tweet-archiver\/\">ozh-tweet-archiver.zip<\/a><br \/>\nExtract and upload to your blog, preserving directory structure.\n<\/div>\n<h2>Plugin Usage<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Install a fresh new empty blog (a subdirectory of your current blog will be fine, or a <tt>tweet.domain.com<\/tt> subdomain, it doesn&#39;t matter)<\/li>\n<li>Install, activate the plugin, follow configuration instructions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features, Plugin Configuration<\/h2>\n<p>You&#39;ll need to <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.twitter.com\/app\/new\">create a Twitter application<\/a> to obtain the consumer and secret keys. That&#39;ll be the hardest part.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/screenshot-11.png\" alt=\"screenshot-1\" width=\"585\" height=\"1713\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/screenshot-11.png 585w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/screenshot-11-102x300.png 102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> The [whatever] does not work!<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/tweets\/\">WorksForMe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> But [Other guy&#39;s plugin] does the same and more!<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Exactly. &quot;And more&quot;. I didn&#39;t need this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> How are tweets imported?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> As regular posts, with a few post custom fields (containing tweet source, &quot;in reply to&quot; data, etc). Hashtags can be converted as post tags if you wish (you&#39;ll want to do this), <tt>t.co<\/tt> links can be expanded to their original URLs, and some proper markup will be applied (see below, developer info)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I tried to import all my tweets for the first time but the page died with an error \/ timeout \/ alien abduction !!1<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Just hit F5 to reload the page. There will be no duplicates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I have more than 3200 tweets. How do I import &#038; archive the old ones?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> I wrote an importer script that uses this plugin. If it doesn&#39;t work for you, see first question of this FAQ (or write something yourself). The script: <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ozh\/11166845\">https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ozh\/11166845<\/a>. There is another script with a similar approach, using data from the JSON files instead of the CSV one: <a href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ozh\/f5deafcffd8d271bfa92\">https:\/\/gist.github.com\/ozh\/f5deafcffd8d271bfa92<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> What theme did you use for your <a href=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/tweets\/\">Tweet archive<\/a>?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> I made a theme for my own needs but it&#39;s freely available, feel free to use and hack it to make something for yourself: <a href=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/my-projects\/ozh-tweet-archive-theme-for-wordpress\/\">Ozh&#39; Tweet Archive Theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Can you add this or that feature?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> This plugin was made to fit <em>my<\/em> needs. But hey, who knows, maybe I&#39;ll feel the need for your idea? Head to the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ozh\/ozh-tweet-archiver\">Github repository<\/a> and file a pull request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> That one tweet got weirdly formatted\/truncated when imported!<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> There&#39;s an &quot;Edit post&quot; link somewhere. That&#39;s the beauty of WordPress when compared to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> Something doesn&#39;t work<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> Create a file named <tt>debug.log<\/tt> in this plugin&#39;s directory. This will activate the debug mode and a lot of things will be logged in that file. See if that helps. If not, see item #1 of this FAQ.<\/p>\n<h2>Theme developer stuff<\/h2>\n<p>Each tweet will be added some markup and classes, depending on your settings (if you want to link to @mentions, link to #hashtags as tags, etc&#8230;) to allow fine styling.<\/p>\n<h3>@mentions<\/h3>\n<p>When linked to Twitter profiles:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-1\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span class=&quot;username username_linked&quot;&gt;@&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/ozh&quot; title=&quot;Ozh Richard&quot;&gt;ozh&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Not linked:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-2\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span title=&quot;@ozh&quot; class=&quot;username username_unlinked&quot;&gt;@ozh&lt;\/span&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<h3>#hashtags<\/h3>\n<p>You can elect to link hashtags to Twitter (as Twitter does), as local WordPress tags (much cooler), or to not link them. In each case, the markup for <tt>#bleh<\/tt> will be:<\/p>\n<p>When linked to Twitter:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-3\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span class=&quot;hashtag hashtag_twitter&quot;&gt;#&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=#bleh&quot;&gt;bleh&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>When locally linked to WordPress tags:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-4\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span class=&quot;hashtag hashtag_local&quot;&gt;#&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/yoursite.com\/tag\/bleh&quot;&gt;bleh&lt;\/a&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Not linked:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-5\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span class=&quot;hashtag hashtag_no&quot;&gt;#bleh&lt;\/span&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p>Links can be &quot;un-t.co&#39;d&quot; (expanded)<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-6\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/example.com&quot; title=&quot;http:\/\/example.com&quot; class=&quot;link link_untco&quot;&gt;example.com&lt;\/a&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<p>Or kept as original t.co links:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-7\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/t.co\/L4m3l1nk&quot; class=&quot;link link_tco&quot;&gt;http:\/\/t.co\/L4m3l1nk&lt;\/a&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<h3>Embedded media<\/h3>\n<p>If you enable embedding images from <tt>pic.twitter.com<\/tt>, you&#39;ll get the following:<\/p>\n<div class=\"igsh-code-box\" id=\"ig-sh-8\"><pre class=\"language-markup line-numbers\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-cfasync=\"false\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&lt;span class=&quot;embed_image embed_image_yes&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;[image link]&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;[image src]&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/code><\/pre><\/div>\n<h3>Template tags<\/h3>\n<p>The plugin comes with a bunch of template tags to be used into your theme. 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