Backupify Tweets to Markdown

backupify.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import glob
import json
from datetime import datetime
import dateutil.parser

# Handle Unicode
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

# Archive format.
single = "%s\n\n[%s](http://twitter.com/andrewheiss/status/%s)\n"
path = 'tweets/'
tweets = []

for tweet_raw in glob.glob( os.path.join(path, '*.json.json') ):
	# tweet_data_utf8 = open(tweet_raw).read().decode('utf-8')
	# tweet = json.loads(tweet_data_utf8)
	tweet_data = open(tweet_raw)
	tweet = json.load(tweet_data)
	tweets.append([dateutil.parser.parse(tweet['created']), tweet['twitter_id'], tweet['text']])

tweets.sort()

tweets_formatted = [ single % \
        (x[2], x[0].strftime("%B %d, %Y at %I:%M%p"), x[1]) \
        for x in tweets ]

output = '\n---\n\n'.join(tweets_formatted)
output += '\n---'

out_file = open('output.md', 'w+')
out_file.write(output)
out_file.close()