Important
For 2Q 2024, Wayback Tweets will transition to a web app with an improved user experience, rewritten in React.
Tool that displays, via Wayback CDX Server API, multiple archived tweets on Wayback Machine to avoid opening each link manually. The app is a prototype written in Python with Streamlit and hosted at Streamlit Cloud with an extra 7 GiB provided free of charge by the Streamlit team (special thanks to Jessica Smith).
Users can apply filters based on specific years and view tweets that lack the original URL.
Thanks Tristan Lee for the idea.
"We're always delighted when we see our community members create tools for open source research." — Bellingcat
"Original way to find deleted tweets." — Henk Van Ess
"This is an excellent tool to use now that most Twitter API-based tools have gone down with changes to the pricing structure over at X." — The OSINT Newsletter - Issue #22
"One of the keys to using the Wayback Machine effectively is knowing what it can and can’t archive. It can, and has, archived many, many Twitter accounts... Utilize fun tools such as Wayback Tweets to do so more effectively." — Ari Ben Am
"Want to see archived tweets on Wayback Machine in bulk? You can use Wayback Tweets." — Daily OSINT
"Untuk mempermudah penelusuran arsip, gunakan Wayback Tweets." — GIJN Indonesia
"A tool to quickly view tweets saved on archive.org." — Irina_Tech_Tips Newsletter #3
- Python 3.8+
$ git clone git@github.com:claromes/waybacktweets.git
$ cd waybacktweets
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ streamlit run app.py
Streamlit will be served at http://localhost:8501
PRs are welcome. Check the roadmap or add a new feature.
Note
If the application is down, please check the Streamlit Cloud Status.