Having trouble grabbing very old replies? I wrote a script to help grab old tweets

[anthonyj-codestuff]

If you are trying to grab very old text tweets, you run into the problem that you need to run gallery-dl for potentially hours or even days to get through the API rate limit. And when you grab from "/with_replies", it sometimes doesn't even try to grab parent tweets to replies beyond a certain point. BUT if you can get the regular replies, you can reconstruct the link for the parent tweet and ask gallery-dl for it by name.

That being said, I was able to generate 11k missing links resulting in 9k rescued JSON files +3000 media files
Might not be the most professional code (and it's WAY slower than running gallery-dl on the user), but it'll output a list of commands that you can run at your leisure.

As always, set up a debugger before running strange code.

https://github.com/fireheadlazzo/gallery-dl-orphan-parent-grabber/blob/main/script.py