Social Media Collections, or, Every Man His Own SIGINT Agency

Various scripts for archiving and monitoring social media. Updated as I make more things.

• Instagram
• Twitter

Instagram

All scripts will accept multiple inputs. Based on the Instaloader Python 3.7 module. See Instaloader documentation for simple account archiving. To get Instaloader, run pip3 install instaloader.

insta_deletionmonitor.py

Coded in a fit of rage when I went to cite a photo in a geolocation only to discover that target had nuked his whole Insta, the deletion monitor will scrape posts from a target account, check previously archived posts against the online account at time of download, and output a text file listing any previously archived posts that the target has deleted.

$ python3 insta_deletionmonitor.py USERNAME

or add to crontab. USERNAME is a username minus @ symbol. The list of deletions is stored in the archive directory as {USERNAME}_deletedposts.txt.

insta_hashtaggers.py

Outputs username, account link, and ID for all users posting in a hashtag. Does NOT archive posts.

$ python3 insta_hashtaggers.py HASHTAG

HASHTAG is a hashtag minus # symbol. Data stored as {HASHTAG}_taggers.csv

Twitter

All scripts will accept multiple inputs. Based on Twint. To get Twint, run pip3 install twint.

twitter_account_archive.py

Returns tweets, followers, following, and likes for a Twitter user.

$ python3 twitter_account_archive.py USERNAME

USERNAME is a username minus @ symbol. The lists are stored as CSV files in a new directory {USERNAME}_twitter.