X Likes Shuffle

Posted %b %e, %Y

By Mia Kiesman

This entire blog refresh was prompted by me wanting to post like, 5 lines of code onto social media and not being able to. So, here is that code.

I use X likes mainly as a way to save things for later. However, it’s not a great system for that as they’re not really indexed and difficult to access. I wanted a way to go back and look at old stuff I liked before. So, using the likes.js file in the GDPR export, this will shuffle your likes and open 20 in your browser. Have fun!

 
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import json
import random
import webbrowser

# remove every thing before the first = before using script
# ancient ah JSON specs, twitter was written in the dark ages
file_path = "data/like.js"

# Open the file and load its contents
with open(file_path, "r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)
expanded_urls = [item['like']['expandedUrl'] for item in data]
random.shuffle(expanded_urls)
for i, url in enumerate(expanded_urls):
    webbrowser.open(expanded_urls[i])
    if i % 20 == 19:
        input("Press enter for next 20 urls, or ctrl+c to exit")

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