Download all tweets liked by a user from Twitter

twitter-likes-archiver.py

# pip3 install tweepy
import tweepy
import json
import time

# Follow the instructions to create a new development project and API keys
# from https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/petition/essential/basic-info
# and enter the key, secret, and bearer token.
apiv2 = tweepy.Client(
    consumer_key='',
    consumer_secret='',
    bearer_token=''
)

# Enter the user ID associated with your username.
# You can find this by entering your username at https://tweeterid.com/
YOUR_USER_ID = 123456

def get_tweets(apiv2, **kwargs):
    return apiv2.get_liked_tweets(YOUR_USER_ID, 
        media_fields=['media_key','url','type','duration_ms','preview_image_url','alt_text','variants'], 
        place_fields=['full_name','id','contained_within','country','country_code','geo','name','place_type'], 
        poll_fields=['id','options','duration_minutes','end_datetime','voting_status'], 
        tweet_fields=['id','text','edit_history_tweet_ids','attachments','author_id','context_annotations','conversation_id','created_at','edit_controls','entities','in_reply_to_user_id','lang','public_metrics','referenced_tweets','reply_settings','source','withheld'],
        user_fields=['id','name','username','created_at','description','entities','location','pinned_tweet_id','profile_image_url','protected','public_metrics','url','verified','withheld'],
        **kwargs)


# If you need to re-run the script after a failure,
# add `, pagination_token='xxx'` with the pagination token
# which was logged out before the failure.
l = get_tweets(apiv2)

items = []
while l and l.data:
    for item in l.data:
        items.append(item.data)

    open("data.json", "w").write(json.dumps(items, default=str))

    print(l.meta, len(items))
    if 'next_token' not in l.meta:
        break
    next_token = l.meta['next_token']
    while True:
        try:
            print('getting tweets')
            l = get_tweets(apiv2, pagination_token=next_token)
            break
        except tweepy.errors.TooManyRequests as e:
            print(e)
            print('sleeping')
            time.sleep(60)
    if not l:
        print('no l!', l)
    if not l.data:
        print('no l.data!', l.data)