State Department Archive

Backup tweet text (hits the twitterapi.io API):

pip install requests
export TWITTERAPI_IO_KEY="YOUR_KEY"
python3 backup.py --until-utc=2026-01-20_17:00:00_UTC

It dumps to a JSONL and a sqlitedb.

Now take the JSONL and fetch the media contents:

python3 media_backup.py \
  --jsonl statedept_backfill.jsonl \
  --media-dir media \
  --sleep 0.2

Static Site

python3 build_site.py
cd docs
python3 -m http.server 8000