How to make a backup of Twitter microblog with the ability to search tweets
Web Services Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Due to its openness, Twitter is able to closely integrate with third-party applications for the purpose of data exchange. In particular, it is possible to carry out the export of tweets for their backup in the event of failures and Twitter to navigate through them. This will allow you to be quiet for the safety of their tweets and find whenever you need them right.
There are many tools to create an archive microblog. If you know enough, you can own easily develop these solutions based on the interaction of different applications with API Twitter.
In this article, we will consider the simplest tools and methods of archiving Twitter microblog.
Backup microblog using special web services
For a complete backup of all your tweets, you can use a special web services, exporting the contents of your microblog as files in HTML, TXT, CSV, XML, JSON.
Data in the first two formats are ideal for human perception. For the most comfortable acquaintance with the file in CSV format, you must open it in a spreadsheet program (example, Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.org Calc). XML files, and the JSON, in addition to the tweets themselves contain code elements and are primarily intended for the exchange of data between different applications. However, the tweets in these files are presented in plain text and can be read by a person.
TweetBackup daily back up of your tweets from multiple Twitter accounts and search results for any hashtag. Service generates files in HTML, TXT and XML. Unfortunately, when archiving of Russian microblogging in HTML and XML files, there is a problem with the encoding: Cyrillic is not displayed. However, you can export to TXT format and get a quality result: perfectly readable text document.
The developers also offer a paid version ($ 1 per month) with additional features: export to CSV files, included in the archive of images downloaded to services TwitPic and Yfrog.
BackupMyTweets also daily tweets exports to HTML files, XML, and JSON from multiple accounts. The formation archive microblog this service is required from several hours or more depending on the amount of data to be archived. Cyrillic characters are displayed correctly.
In the future, expect to see the premium version of the service (about $ 10 per year) with more advanced features: preservation lists of followers and those you Fallaway, archiving tweets from the friends-and tweets tagged and given hashtag t. d.
BackupMyTweets BackupMy is part of the package. Net, which also includes tools for backup e-mail, Blogger blogs, WordPress.com, TypePad and images from Flickr account, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, SmugMug.
Tweetake archives all data stored in your Twitter account (including a list of followers and those you Fallaway) and gives you a file in CSV format. You can choose what to back up. Unlike TweetBackup and BackupMyTweets, this service does not support automatic daily backups.
Backup tweets WordPress
Another convenient way to backup is to import tweets to blog on the WordPress database using plugins such as Twitter Importer, Tweet Import or Twitter Tools. In addition, each tweet becomes a separate blog post.
twitter Importer It allows you to assign each tweet category and name of the author.
Tweet Import more functional: you can import tweets from multiple accounts, distribute them by category and by author and tag them based on tags that you set on the basis of tags or hashtags, contained in tweets.
twitter Tools can not only back up the microblogging, but also automatically broadcast the new posts from the blog on Twitter. In addition, you can write in your microblog from the built-in WordPress simplest Twi client that comes with the Twitter Tools.
Backup tweets RSS-reader and e-mail
By subscribing to the RSS-channel micro-blog, you'll get new tweets will be able to mark their tags and search for him. To subscribe to your public tweets you can use any RSS-reader. If you want to archive your Twi-tape from the tweets of your friends, you will have to find a card reader with support authorization, ie. a. Access to this RSS-channel opens only when you enter the login and password of your account Twitter.
Another option - use the service FreeMyFeedWhich makes it possible to release the closed channels of authorization needed. The site of this service states that the usernames and passwords are not stored on the server. However, I would not blindly trust this service when it comes to mission-critical login and password. Especially when you consider that there are many readers who can receive updates from the closed RSS-channels.
You can also use email archiving tweets, their ordering and search through them. To do this you will need, for example, service RSS2EmailWhich sends updates of RSS-channel to the specified email address.