· 7 years ago · Feb 15, 2019, 05:42 AM
1@webrecorder_io allows you to capture protected Tweets by logging into your Twitter account and browsing around as you usually would.
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3It also does a much better job of capturing modern, complex websites than the Internet Archive, archive.is, archive.st, webcitation.org, megalodon.jp etc.
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5To permanently save these and share them publicly, you do need to sign up for an account at https://webrecorder.io. The email address you use will need to be at least a reasonably common free provider (hotmail.com, gmail.com, etc)- not a temporary email or throwaway cock.li address.
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7Once you've done that, you can easily start to create recordings. After starting a 'session', you can record one or more pages in the session. The sessions can either be recorded with a sort of 'passthrough' to your normal browser, which works fine for Twitter and most sites, or with an actual real copy of Firefox or Chrome running remotely, which can allow the service to capture more data for more complex sites. When you finish recording a session it can be saved to a 'collection' of one or more sessions.
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9One caveat- Twitter will prompt you for phone number verification when you first login from a previously unseen location, and part of that phone number will be visible as part of the session, from which individual pages cannot be deleted- and thus publicly visible if you share the session publicly. So, before starting to record the protected tweets you should first start a completely separate collection and session, log in with your Twitter account and go through the verification. Then delete that collection, create a new one, and log into Twitter again and start collecting the protected Tweets. The easiest way to make sure you get them all is to open them in new tabs after navigating to the user's profile.
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11@webrecorder_io is run by a legit museum organization, @rhizome, but if you are concerned about them getting your Twitter login details (which do not appear to be saved as part of the session archives), you could change your password before using it, go in and record the tweets, and then change it back afterwards.
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13@webrecorder_io's quickstart guide with video:
14https://guide.webrecorder.io/