# Generates JSON feed from Twitter timeline URL. # # This script expects one input parameter: # twitter.py [twitter-user-name] # # For example: # twitter.py 'NASA' import json import re import sys import requests from datetime import datetime twitter_url = "https://twitter.com/" + sys.argv[1] twitter_username = twitter_url[twitter_url.rfind("/") + 1:] twitter_bearer = "Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs%3D1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA" # Download RAW Twitter HTML data and extract token. url_response = url_response = requests.get(twitter_url) twitter_html = url_response.text twitter_token = re.search("gt=(\d+);", twitter_html).group(1) url_response = requests.get("https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/hc-pka9A7gyS3xODIafnrQ/UserByScreenName?variables=%7B%22screen_name%22%3A%22sportscenter%22%2C%22withHighlightedLabel%22%3Atrue%7D", headers = { "x-guest-token": twitter_token, "Authorization": twitter_bearer }) twitter_id = json.loads(url_response.text)["data"]["user"]["rest_id"] # Obtain JSON Twitter data with token. twitter_json_url = "https://twitter.com/i/api/2/timeline/profile/{user_id}.json?include_profile_interstitial_type=1&include_blocking=1&include_blocked_by=1&include_followed_by=1&include_want_retweets=1&include_mute_edge=1&include_can_dm=1&include_can_media_tag=1&skip_status=1&cards_platform=Web-12&include_cards=1&include_ext_alt_text=true&include_quote_count=true&include_reply_count=1&tweet_mode=extended&include_entities=true&include_user_entities=true&include_ext_media_color=true&include_ext_media_availability=true&send_error_codes=true&simple_quoted_tweet=true&include_tweet_replies=false&count=50&userId={user_id}&ext=mediaStats&2ChighlightedLabel".format(user_id = twitter_id) url_response = requests.get(twitter_json_url, headers = { "x-guest-token": twitter_token, "Authorization": twitter_bearer }) # Convert to JSON feed. json_data = json.loads(url_response.text) json_root = json_data["globalObjects"]["tweets"] json_feed = "{{\"title\": \"{title}\", \"home_page_url\": \"{url}\", \"items\": [{items}]}}" items = list() for ite in json_root: article = json_root[ite] if "urls" in article["entities"] and len(article["entities"]["urls"]) > 0: article_url = json.dumps(article["entities"]["urls"][0]["expanded_url"]) else: article_url = json.dumps("") article_title = json.dumps(article["full_text"][:75] + (article["full_text"][75:] and '...')) article_time = json.dumps(datetime.strptime(article["created_at"], "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y").isoformat()) article_contents = json.dumps(article["full_text"]) items.append("{{\"title\": {title}, \"authors\": [{{\"name\": {author}}}], \"content_text\": {text}, \"url\": {url}, \"date_published\": {date}}}".format( title = article_title, text = article_contents, author = json.dumps(twitter_username), url = article_url, date = article_time)) json_feed = json_feed.format( title = "twitter.com/" + twitter_username, url = twitter_url, items = ", ".join(items)) print(json_feed)