Dennis Kergl dkergl
dkergl
/ id_str-time.py
Created
June 1, 2018 11:24
— forked from leondz/id_str-time.py
Extract unix time to nearest millisecond from Twitter tweet ID
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| # use id_str instead of id to avoid overflows when accidentally casting to int | |
| def twitter_id_to_epoch(id_str): | |
| # credit to "On the endogenesis of Twitter’s Spritzer and Gardenhose sample streams" Kergl et al., Proc ASONAM 2014 (IEEE) | |
| id_str = id_str.replace("'", "") | |
| id_i = int(id_str) | |
| snowflake_epoch = id_i >> 22 | |
| epoch_ms = snowflake_epoch + 1288834974657 | |
| return epoch_ms / 1000 |