DocNow/twarc
A command line tool (and Python library) for archiving Twitter JSON observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
50/100
- Activity 49
- Release rhythm 22
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4979
- days_rel: 306
- days_push: 306
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1394 stars · 250 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
twarc is a command line tool and Python library for collecting and archiving Twitter JSON data via the Twitter v1.1 and v2 APIs. It was developed for researchers and archivists to harvest and preserve Twitter data.
Use cases
- archive tweets as for research
- collect twitter data via the api from the command line
- harvest tweets matching a search query
- download a user's tweets for analysis
- build a twitter dataset for academic study
- use a python library to page through twitter api results
When to choose
- you need to collect and archive Twitter JSON data via the v1.1 or v2 API
- you want a scriptable command line tool or Python library for Twitter data harvesting
- you are doing social media research or web archiving of Twitter content
When to avoid
- you need actively maintained Twitter collection tooling, since API quota changes made twarc unusable and it is no longer supported
- you want to collect data from platforms other than Twitter
- you need a GUI-based social media analytics tool
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
cli web-scraping etl social-media data-science developer-tools python cli cross-platform twitter-api twitter-archive social-media-data data-collection academic-research -archiving command-line
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/DocNow/twarc · fetched 2026-08-28 · fb6029de223f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| DocNow/twarc | main | 50 |
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