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There is a Twitter user who posts valuable stuff and I want to save his tweets not as text but as images (screenshots) just as you see it on your phone or computer.

I installed python-twitter and tweepy but I didn't find a solution in the docs and neither in communities so far.

Alternatively: Is there another way to save tweets in a kind of pretty, visually appealing way?

Thank you in advance.

Jonas
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    If you're going to save Tweets as images, how will you deal with the compliance issue of deleting Tweets when the user deletes them? (section III.B of the Developer Agreement https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement-and-policy) – Andy Piper Mar 25 '20 at 11:18
  • I don't see why a tweet saved as text or as an image would make much difference for this rule. – Jonas Mar 26 '20 at 04:09
  • If you’re only storing the Tweet Id and then hydrating or displaying at runtime then for a deleted Tweet you wouldn’t end up showing a deleted Tweet. For a long term stored image of a Tweet then you already have a picture so there is no rehydration to check if the data should be displayed. – Andy Piper Mar 26 '20 at 05:54

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With those libraries you can only extract Twitter data. Those aren't image processing libraries. You will have to write your own logic how you want those pictures displayed.

Look into Pillow.

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I usually use this site called tweetcyborg.com It converts any tweet into an image.

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  • That's basically what I was looking for, except the limitation of not being able to use it automated. Do you know which software/framework they use? I could then write my own. – Jonas Mar 28 '20 at 05:59
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I figured it out. Using Selenium Webdriver to open the Twitter account page in the browser, then scrape the tweets and use a screenshot tool to make an image. This looping through all tweets.

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