@tacosandcoffee/twitter-screenshot NPM

twitter-screenshot

An application to hold onto the moment

This application will take screenshots of URLs passed to it.

To Install

npm i -g @tacosandcoffee/twitter-screenshot

To Use

One URL with `--thread` (captures entire Tweet thread)

twitter-screenshot [url here] --thread

One URL

npm start [url here]

Screenshot will be saved in ~/twitter-screenshot/screenshots/[twitterHandle]

Multiple URLs (via `links.txt`)

cd
mkdir twitter-screenshot/
touch twitter-screenshot/links.txt
# open links.txt and add all the URLs, newline for each one
# save file
twitter-screenshot .txt

Screenshots will be saved in ~/twitter-screenshot/screenshots/[twitterHandle] Note: If multiple URLs have different handles, the respective screenshots will be in those specific sub-folders

Version Notes

v1.0.0

--thread flag will capture and take individual screenshots of each sub-tweet
- creates tweets.csv and table.html
  - tweets.csv contains
    - username
    - timestamp
    - text
    - tweet id
    - tweet URL
    - local filepath to screenshot
  - table.html is a simple formatted table which allows visual navigation of screenshots
    - image thumbnails will navigate to fullsize screenshots saved locally

v0.3.0

Read multiple URLs from root/home/twitter-screenshot/links.txt

v0.2.1

Initial basic feature of taking a screenshot via URL and saving to file
URL will be parsed and the first path will be used as the directory

TODO

Read from a links.txt file to take multiple screenshots
Save text of respective screenshot
Determine a way to store and organize in a spreadsheet-like format
- Capture entire thread of a Tweet in CSV format for spreadsheet import
Explore integration with Google Sheets API
Take one large screenshot of entire thread
Update timestamp format to allow easy sort - enable sortable columns on HTML table