Burninator Sec: Twitter Removed the Blocked Account Export – Let’s Put it Back!
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/18
Hoping I can still use the Twitter API to perform thousands of requests: [Wayback/Archive] Burninator Sec: Twitter Removed the Blocked Account Export – Let’s Put it Back!
I dug around in the Data Archive and eventually found block.js, which is a JSON object of all the blocked accounts in their ideas. From there you can write a quick Python script to use the Twitter API to resolve all of those IDs to usernames.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] How to download your Twitter archive and Tweets | Twitter Help.
Via [Wayback/Archive] twitter export blocklist – Google Search and
[Wayback/Archive] How to export and import my block list in the 2019 “New Twitter” UI? – Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] 2540625 and [Wayback/Archive] burninator).
Needed because of (note you cannot use SMS verification any more: only e-mail verification sometimes still functions correctly) [Wayback/Archive] David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙♂️🌈 on X: “Imagine not being able to understand why you’d want to block someone @elonmusk is actively destroying this site bit by bit”
More related:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Baert on X: “Hahahaha. Export them before he does.
web.archive.org/web/20230818182618/https://twitter.com/jbaert/status/1692573036749242607“ - [Wayback/Archive] Forceflow/twitter_blocklist_exporter: Script to download your Twitter blocklist and export it to various formats
–jeroen
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