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December 13, 2019 07:46
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Fetch and export tweets into a html file
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const fs = require("fs"); | |
const $ = require("cheerio"); | |
const rp = require("request-promise"); | |
var url = "https://twitter.com/india"; | |
const fileName = "tweets-file-" + url.substr(20) + ".html"; | |
const tweets = fs.createWriteStream(fileName); | |
// write headers | |
tweets.write(`Tweets: | |
<style> | |
@import url(https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/build/web/hack.css); | |
body{white-space: break-spaces;font-family: hack, monospace} | |
</style>\n`); | |
rp(url) | |
.then(response => { | |
// console.log( | |
// $(".js-tweet-text-container", response) | |
// .text() | |
// .replace(/\s\s+/g, "\n\n") | |
// ); | |
const tweetsScrapped = $(".js-tweet-text-container", response) | |
.text() | |
.replace(/\s\s+/g, "\n\n"); | |
// write to file | |
tweets.write(tweetsScrapped); | |
console.log("tweets scrapped... Succesfully!!"); | |
}) | |
.catch(err => console.log(err)); |
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