dnlongen / tweetmarks

PoC to import URLs liked in Twitter, and add them to browser bookmarks

Tweetmarks

(Rough) proof of concept to extract URLs liked or favorited in Twitter, and add them to browser bookmarks.

• Written by David Longenecker
• Twitter: @dnlongen
• Email: david (at) securityforrealpeople.com

Twitter converts every url into a "t.co" shortlink. The same url tweeted again later will get a different shortlink. Tweetmarks handles this by examining the url entity, and replacing the t.co shortlink with the expanded url provided by the Twitter API.

The Twitter API is rate-limited, as described at https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/rate-limiting. If you get a rate-limit error running tweetthief, try again with a smaller -n, or wait a few minutes.

PoC code so far extracts the liked URLs, but doesn't add them to bookmarks yet. Chrome bookmarks are stored in JSON format; theoretically it should be possible to parse the JSON file at $APPDATA..\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks and add bookmark entries underneath roots-->bookmark_bar-->children-->(create a folder). Alternately, CLI bookmarks by TJ Holowaychuk (https://github.com/tj/bm) looks like a handy way to do browser-agnostic bookmarks.

Requirements:

• Requires tweepy, the Twitter API module for Python, available from https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
• Requires an application token for the Twitter API. Refer to documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/overview/application-owner-access-tokens, and set up your own app-specific tokens at https://apps.twitter.com

Change Log:

• v0.1 Original release.

Errata:

• TBD