For everyone using gallery-dl to backup twitter: Make sure you do it right

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/DataHoarder

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    Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library (by ervinb)

  • i got this when trying to get a list of everyone i follow. jq: error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end (Unix shell quoting issues?) at , line 1:.[][2].legacy.screen_name|https://twitter.com/+. jq: 1 compile error

    go to the github link: https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl

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  • If you have jq installed you can run gallery-dl https://twitter.com/YOUR HANDLE/following --dump-json | jq ".[][2].legacy.screen_name|""https://twitter.com/""""+." -r to get a list of everyone you follow

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