bear

Yeah, so earlier this summer, I got a bug up my butt about "given how the wider internet is going to hell, how about I centralize my archives in one place?"

So I'm looking at Twitter and trying to figure out how to actually get my tweet archive into Dreamwidth, and what I want that to look like, and what tools actually exist to help with that right now. I think, ideally:

* I have something like 22,000 tweets. I would *really* like to not create 22,000 Dreamwidth entries, even if I can automate this import somehow. I will absolutely not be manually creating 22,000 DW entries!

* It would be lovely if these imported tweet posts could be posted private, or access-only.

* Ideally, the import tool would make one post per day, including multiple tweets in a post if they exist.

* Uber-ideally, the import tool knows how to handle uploading images to Dreamwidth :) and in the 5 <1% (I just looked at the media folder in my tweet archive; out of 1120 media files, 29 are .mp4s and 59 are .pngs; everything else is a .jpg) of cases where the media is an .mp4, figure out a way to fail kindly until I can get the movie files uploaded somewhere at least linkable, if not necessarily embeddable.

Have any of you done this before? Or know of any tools that do? ... or is the real answer going to be "guess what, Bear, you get to figure out how you want to translate the tweets.js format into a Dreamwidth-importable format!"? LOL. (And, um, what does that latter bit look like?) Though it looks like currently, the importer only works directly with other LJ-based sites, so I can't fling an appropriately-formatted file at it from my desktop.