drdrang/archive-tweets

Update a local archive of your tweets.

archive-tweets's Issues

Improve README telling to change the "me" value in Parameters.

If, like me, you don't read the code, you don't realize that the "me" value must be changed in Parameters. Maybe it is a good idea tell that in the README.

Thank you.

strftime's %B, umlauts & encode('utf8')

The default datefmt = '%B %-d, %Y at %-I:%M %p' don't work with a german localized dates. The month may contains a umlaut and then the line '\n'.join(lines).encode('utf8') fails with a UnicodeDecodeError.

What happened: The string with the date is automatically decoded with the default codec (ASCII) but does not correctly decode the ä. When it later tries to encode the ascii string to utf8 the error is thrown.
You find a discussion about this here: http://bugs.python.org/issue5398

Explicitly decoding the date like this ts.strftime(datefmt).decode('utf8') solves this issue for me.

Ps: Is the minus in %-d and %-I on purpose and if yes, what's the effect of it? Don't know this syntax and also seems to not work on my machine.

Add explicit open source license?

This script is great! You might want to put an explicit open source license on it, so people are clear about what they can do with it -- http://choosealicense.com/ can help with that (or I'm happy to help if you want).

Thanks,
-K

Fixes for Python 3

I ran into:

  File "archive-tweets.py", line 46, in <module>
    ts.strftime(datefmt).decode('utf8'),
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

As an error when using Python 3. Changing line 44 to ts.strftime(datefmt), and changing line 48 to f.write('\n'.join(lines)) fixed the issue.

I'm happy to submit this as a pull request if the project is put under an open source license (I like the MIT license but that's just my preference).