The way I did it wasn't pretty, but they severely limited our options by removing the export/import block list functionality.
I requested my Data Archive (https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive). You'll notice that it only contains link out to the web version of the block list. Since that list is dynamically loaded, it is not easy to web scrape without Selenium or a proxy, and it will get ugly.
So, instead, I dug around in the Data Archive and eventually found block.js, which is a JSON object of all the blocked accounts in their ideas. From there you can write a quick Python script to use the Twitter API to resolve all of those IDs to usernames.
Once I get home I'll edit this comment to include the Python I used for this.
EDIT: Here is the script:
// Burninator 2022
// Export block list functionality that Twitter randomly removed
// Used to block all the promoted content, will be posting a list of about 5000 blocked accounts shortly
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth1Session
import os
import json
import time
def getblocklist(fancyfile):
consumer_key = "HAHA"
consumer_secret = "NICETRYHACKERS"
# Get request token
request_token_url = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_callback=oob&x_auth_access_type=write"
oauth = OAuth1Session(consumer_key, client_secret=consumer_secret)
try:
fetch_response = oauth.fetch_request_token(request_token_url)
except ValueError:
print(
"There may have been an issue with the consumer_key or consumer_secret you entered."
)
resource_owner_key = fetch_response.get("oauth_token")
resource_owner_secret = fetch_response.get("oauth_token_secret")
print("Got OAuth token: %s" % resource_owner_key)
# Get authorization
base_authorization_url = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"
authorization_url = oauth.authorization_url(base_authorization_url)
print("Please go here and authorize: %s" % authorization_url)
verifier = input("Paste the PIN here: ")
# Get the access token
access_token_url = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token"
oauth = OAuth1Session(
consumer_key,
client_secret=consumer_secret,
resource_owner_key=resource_owner_key,
resource_owner_secret=resource_owner_secret,
verifier=verifier,
)
oauth_tokens = oauth.fetch_access_token(access_token_url)
access_token = oauth_tokens["oauth_token"]
access_token_secret = oauth_tokens["oauth_token_secret"]
# Make the request
oauth = OAuth1Session(
consumer_key,
client_secret=consumer_secret,
resource_owner_key=access_token,
resource_owner_secret=access_token_secret,
)
logMe = open(fancyfile, 'r') #Block.js from user's data archive download
leoutput = open("block_names.txt", 'a') #save account names here
thecounter = 1
for line in logMe:
thatsTheTweet = "Current blocked account ID: " + line
line = line.strip()
thecounter = thecounter + 1
# Making the request
response = oauth.get(
"https://api.twitter.com/2/users/"+line+"?user.fields=name"
)
#print (str(response.content))
if (response.status_code != 201) and (response.status_code != 200):
print("Request returned an error: {} {}".format(response.status_code, response.text))
if ("Not Found Error" in response.text):
print("Response code User Not Found: {}".format(response.status_code))
continue
if ("Forbidden" in response.text):
print("Response code Forbidden: {}".format(response.status_code))
continue
if response.status_code == 429:
print("Response code 429 usually is rate limit: {}".format(response.status_code))
logMe.close()
leoutput.close()
exit(1337)
print("Response code: {}".format(response.status_code))
# Saving the response as JSON
json_response = response.json()
print(json.dumps(json_response, indent=4, sort_keys=True))
snarf= json.dumps(json_response, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
thejson = json.loads(snarf)
writeme = thejson['data']['username'] # "data" "username"
leoutput.write(writeme+"\n")
if (thecounter < 200):
time.sleep(20) # make it 20, 38 wroks
else:
time.sleep(63)
logMe.close()
leoutput.close()
print("done")
exit(1338)
if __name__ == '__main__':
getblocklist('firstshot_twitter_block_reduced.txt')
https://burninatorsec.blogspot.com/2022/07/twitter-removed-blocked-account-export.html
