# For command line

import argparse

# File and Bits

import os

import json

# Etc

import requests

import random

from urllib.parse import urlparse

def is_valid_url(url):

return False

# Command line options

arguments = argparse.ArgumentParser(

prog='tweet2json',

description='Download the JSON representation of any public Tweet')

arguments.add_argument("id", type=str, help="ID of the Tweet (integer)")

arguments.add_argument("-p", "--pretty", action="store_true", help="Pretty Print the output (default false)", required=False)

args = arguments.parse_args()

if (is_valid_url(args.id)):

url_parts = result = urlparse(args.id)

tweet_id = url_parts.path.split("/")[-1]

else :

tweet_id = args.id

if (tweet_id.isdecimal() is False) :

print( "No valid Tweet ID found." )

raise SystemExit

pretty_print = True if args.pretty else False

# Get the data from the Twitter embed API

for _ in range(5):

# Lazy retry strategy

try :

print( "Downloading data…" )

token = random.randint(1,10000)

json_url = f"https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id={tweet_id}&lang=en&token={token}"

response = requests.get(json_url)

data = response.json()

break

except :

print( "Retrying…" )

continue

# If Tweet was deleted, exit.

if "TweetTombstone" == data["__typename"] :

print( "This Post was deleted by the Post author." )

raise SystemExit

if (pretty_print) :

twitter_json = json.dumps(data, indent=3)

else :

twitter_json = json.dumps(data)

# Save directory

output_directory = "output"

os.makedirs(output_directory, exist_ok = True)

save_location = os.path.join( output_directory, f"{tweet_id}.json" )

# Save as JSON

with open( save_location, 'w', encoding="utf-8" ) as json_file:

json_file.write( twitter_json )

print( f"Saved to {save_location}" )