issues

I requested a Twitter export yesterday, and unfortunately they seem to have changed it such that twitter-to-sqlite import can't handle it anymore 😢

So far I've ran into two issues. The first was easy to work around, but the second will take more investigation. If I can find the time I'll keep working on it and update this issue accordingly.

The issues (so far):

1. Data seems to have moved to a data/ subdirectory

Running twitter-to-sqlite import on the raw zip file reports a bunch of "not yet implemented" errors, and then exits without actually importing anything:

❯ twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db twitter.zip ... data/manifest: not yet implemented data/account-creation-ip: not yet implemented data/account-suspension: not yet implemented ... (dozens of more lines like this, including critical stuff like data/tweets) ...

(tarchive.db now exists, but is empty)

Workaround: unpack the zip file, and run twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db path/to/archive/data

That gets further, but:

2. Some schema(s?) have changed

At least, the blocks schema seems different now:

❯ twitter-to-sqlite import tarchive.db archive/data direct-messages-group: not yet implemented branch-links: not yet implemented periscope-expired-broadcasts: not yet implemented direct-messages: not yet implemented mute: not yet implemented Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 829, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 782, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1259, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/click/core.py", line 610, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 772, in import_ archive.import_from_file(db, filepath.name, open(filepath, "rb").read()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 215, in import_from_file to_insert = transformer(data) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 115, in lists_member return {"lists-member": _list_from_common(data)} File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jacobian-dogsheep-4AXaN4tu-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 200, in _list_from_common for url in block["userListInfo"]["urls"]: KeyError: 'urls'

That's as far as I got before I needed to work on something else. I'll report back if I get further!

datasette publish uses hard links to avoid copying the db into a tmp directory. This can fail if /tmp is on another device, because hardlinks can't cross devices. You'll see something like this:

$ datasette publish heroku whatever.db ... OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link: '/mnt/c/Users/jacob/c/datasette/whatever.db' -> '/tmp/tmpvxq2yof6/whatever.db' [In my case this is failing because I'm on a Windows machine, using WSL, so my code's on a different virtual filesystem from the Linux subsystem, Because Reasons.]

I'm not sure if it's possible to detect this (can you figure out which device /tmp is on?), or what the fallback should be (soft link? copy?).

If a file in the export is empty (in my case it was account-suspensions.js), twitter-to-sqlite import fails:

$ twitter-to-sqlite import twitter.db ~/Downloads/twitter-2019-11-06-926f4f3be4b3b1fcb1aa387c40cd14f7c8aaf9bbcdb2d78ac14d9989add501bb.zip Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 627, in import_ archive.import_from_file(db, filename, content) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/archive.py", line 224, in import_from_file db[table_name].upsert_all(rows, hash_id="pk") File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 1113, in upsert_all extracts=extracts, File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sqlite_utils/db.py", line 980, in insert_all first_record = next(records) StopIteration

This appears to be because db.upsert_all is called with no rows -- I think?

I hacked around this by modifying import_from_file to have an if rows: clause:

for table, rows in to_insert.items(): if rows: table_name = "archive_{}".format(table.replace("-", "_")) ...

I'm happy to work up a real PR if that's the right approach, but I'm not sure it is.

Trying to run twitter-to-sqlite followers errors out:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/bin/twitter-to-sqlite", line 10, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 130, in followers go(bar.update) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py", line 116, in go utils.save_users(db, [profile]) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 302, in save_users transform_user(user) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/twitter_to_sqlite/utils.py", line 181, in transform_user user["created_at"] = parser.parse(user["created_at"]) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 1374, in parse return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 646, in parse res, skipped_tokens = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 725, in _parse l = _timelex.split(timestr) # Splits the timestr into tokens File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 207, in split return list(cls(s)) File "/Users/jacob/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/jkm-dogsheep-ezLnyXZS-py3.7/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py", line 76, in __init__ '{itype}'.format(itype=instream.__class__.__name__)) TypeError: Parser must be a string or character stream, not datetime

This appears to be because https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L111 calls transform_user, and then https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L116 calls transform_user again, which fails because the user is already transformed.

I was able to work around this by commenting out https://github.com/dogsheep/twitter-to-sqlite/blob/master/twitter_to_sqlite/cli.py#L116.

Shall I work up a patch for that, or is there a better approach?