Hi,
I don't use Twitter enough to really care about any of the data recovery aspects, but since you asked on the list and have had no help, I thought I'd see if I can help at least get a conversation going that will get others to join in. I'm replying sans-coffee, so apologies for mistakes etc.
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022 at 09:34, Bev Nicolson lumos@gmx.co.uk wrote:
So, is this (link below) the best way of trying to get the html info into a form that can be read entirely offline
I don't know if it's the best way to do it. Because I don't really use Twitter and don't really have a need to do what you are asking. However it occurs to me that it doesn't really matter if it's the best way to do it, surely if you take the archive of your Twitter data, you have a copy, and you can keep using that master copy for other tools, some of which may work better than other tools. If this tool doesn't work, you still have your archived Twitter data to try on some other tool (just make sure you keep a backup somewhere).
or is there a better to do this for Linux? Happy to do this in Terminal if given the commands to use.
But your original link had commands that were given as instructions, did you try them? Step 3 gets you to copy the Github python script from your link into your unzipped Twitter data folder, and then step 4 gets you to run that python script from within that folder.
On 12/11/2022 09:45, Bev Nicolson wrote:
So, I downloaded my Twitter data to be on the safe side and found this which offers a way of making that info readable/useable offline.
https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
But I'm not at all clear how to do 3 and 4. I didn't think it was possible run a command within a folder?
Yes, it is possible to run a command within a folder. In fact, aren't we doing that any time we run commands on the command line? We always have a current working directory (folder). Usually it is in your /home/<username> but can be anywhere. All step 4 asks you to do is to run that python script from within the folder that contains your extracted Twitter data.
Best of luck, Srdjan