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How to get your Twitter Archive Data
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To get the archive that the Python script operates on:

  1. Visit https://twitter.com
  2. From the menu, select "More" → "Settings and privacy", which will take you to the Settings page.
  3. On the Settings page, pick "Your Twitter data" → "Download archive".

NOTE: You will get a tweet and an email when the data is ready to be downloaded. It will be a large ZIP file. When you unzip it, it does not create a directory to contain the contents, so you probably want to create a directory with a name like twitter, put the ZIP file in there, and then unzip it. (Cleverer ways to accomplish this in one sh command are left as an exercise for the reader.)

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