This is a basic Python 3 script to grab a thread of tweets from Twitter and then spit them out as a text file so you can cut-and-paste them into a blog.
You need to authorise the app with a Twitter access token for your Twitter account. Follow the instructions here: https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens
Create a configuration file ~/.twitrc in your home directory, and then add a
[twitter] section like so:
[twitter]
token = <your_api_token>
token_key = <your_token_key>
con_secret = <your_connection_secret>
con_secret_key = <your_connection_secret_key>
This file is designed to use the same format as https://github.com/eigenmagic/twitforget
The standard way to use the script is to call it with the URL of one of the tweets from the thread, like so:
tweetstorm2blog.py https://twitter.com/<yourhandle>/status/<nnnnnnnnnnnnnn>
For more advanced usage, run tweetstorm2blog.py -h to read the help.
The URL of the tweet you provide can be anywhere in the thread. The script will work backwards from this starting point to find all the tweets earlier in the thread, and then find all the replies to these tweets.
Once assembled, the script then sorts the tweets into chronological order and prints them out as a text file.
You can specify the name of the output text file using -o <outfile>.