🆕 Twitter blogs supported now!

[thomas694]

 
⭐ Besides the original Tumblr downloaders TumblThree has a Twitter downloader now! 🎉
 
Just enter a blog url (e.g. https://twitter.com/cats 🐱) into the text field and add the blog to your list.

At the moment TumblThree can only download public blogs
and offers the following options:

• Download of photo, video and text posts of (public) blogs.
• Download meta information for photo and video posts.
• Allows to download only original content of the blog and skip reblogged posts.
• Can download only tagged posts.
• Allows to download blog posts in a defined time span.

Shall we keep this feature and maybe extend it in the future?
Please test it and send us your feedback and comments ✏️ below!
Should you find a bug 🐛 please open a new issue.

Enjoy this new feature in the next couple of days!
After several days we will get back and evaluate it.

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[cr1zydog]

Hello @thomas694 , i like this new Twitter feature. It works like a charm. I can download pictures, videos, text what Twint (Only Text) lacks.

But its text representation could be more effective with twitter id, date, time etc. as Twint does, otherwise it's a great tool to me.

Thank you :)

[ztgasdf]

I agree wholeheartedly. You can also get the exact time of tweets by using something like https://github.com/oduwsdl/tweetedat without having to use the API.

[thomas694]

For starters we highly appreciate the feedback of the six people who have shown a reaction or given a feedback so far. 😃
/srs

It's not totally clear which of the numbers here on GH are suitable for measuring, e.g. how many people are using/downloading our application. The numbers are a bit divergent. 😕 But even in the best case calculation, an astonishing 1% 😲 got their butt in gear and showed some reaction. 👍

At the end we are sure we don't want to keep and maintain something that the majority of our users wants.
/s

[cewong2]

I just started trying this feature and it's great. is there a chance that we can add our "login" like the tumblr one so that we may access the protected twiiter accounts?

[thomas694]

It should be possible I think. But it will take some time.

[xathian]

Does this new feature actually download ENTIRE twitter feed history? There's been a well known issue with basically all Twitter downloaders for several years now about some sort of Twitter API restriction or throttle where downloads of Media posts (Picturess/Videos) simply will not go back to the accounts beginning if the account is older than a couple years. Most downloaders will only download back posts for around 1-2 years before cutting off.

This has killed off several Twitter downloaders because the devs simply couldn't get around it, you'd have 8 year old Twitter accounts that list as having, for example, 4500 Pic/Video posts but when you try to scrape them you get like 800 of the posts going back to 2019 then it just stops.

[thomas694]

The proof of the pudding is in the eating!
Or, to put it simply: Try it out.

[xathian]

The proof of the pudding is in the eating! Or, to put it simply: Try it out.

Gave it a try, seems the answer is sort of 50/50. I tried on an account that has a total of 6503 media posts (https://i.imgur.com/Kedal6W.png) and the downloader managed to snag 5465 dating back to mid 2017. Still missing a considerable portion of the posts at over 1000 but this is a hell of a lot better than the alternatives which tend to flatline after ~2000 posts back to around late 2019.

This is pretty nice, probably the best Twitter downloader around right now. Hope you continue to support it.