Tweet Grabber

Simple Node / Puppeteer script to screenshot a tweet (or multiple tweets), recompress the screenshot using Squoosh CLI, and save the tweet text into a separate text file.

Installation

Clone the repo and use:

$ npm install -g @squoosh/cli
$ npm install

Squoosh is assumed to be global within the index.js file.

Usage

There are three ways to use the script:

Single Tweet

Here we pass in a single tweet to be captured:

$ node index.js https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1334548197881106437

Multiple Tweets (CSV)

Here we pass in multiple tweets as a string with a comma separating them:

$ node index.js 'https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1334548197881106437, https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1357036776074989568'

Multiple Tweets (txt file)

Here the script expects a list of tweets to capture (one per line). See the example tweets text file:

$ node index.js example-tweets.txt

Output

For each of the tweets the original screenshot is captured and saved to the uncompressed_tweets folder. A JPEG compressed version, along with the text from the tweet are saved to the compressed_tweets folder.

Example

Running the following command:

$ node index.js https://twitter.com/TheRealNooshu/status/1350578919389470721

Generates the following compressed image (50 KB) and gathers the alt text used.

Options

The script comes with a few options:

• uncompressedTweetsDir: Directory to save the original screenshots (default: uncompressed_tweets).
• compressedTweetsDir: Directory to save the compressed screenshots (default: compressed_tweets).
• compressedFileSuffix: Add a suffix to the compressed screenshots (default: _compressed).
• jpegCompression: Level of JPEG compression used for the compressed screenshots (default: 90).
• cleanCompressedDirectory: Clear out any files in the compressed_tweets folder when the script is run (default: false).

License

MIT