Tim Hutton

Is the text in the content of a video tag the ALT text? I thought that was just fallback for if videos aren't supported. I guess the answer will be:...

Closing this pending clarity on whether `` tags can even have ALT text, and some way of obtaining the text for Twitter videos. I think the correct answer is that...

Thanks @martinbrook. Yes we should split them the same way we split the md files. It could even use the same code.

@tirolerben If you think there's a need to parse archives in that old format then please open a separate issue for that. I'm trying here to handle current-format archives but...

Is there duplicated code here, between parse_direct_messages() and convert_tweet()? I wonder if first we need to refactor `convert_tweet()` into several smaller functions such that `parse_direct_messages()` can reuse them.

This change doesn't embed images, sadly, since on L596 the body is inside \`\`\`...\`\`\` A rendering of the markdown looks like this:  We could consider remove the backquotes. It...

But let's get this change in and we can fix that issue later if it helps unblock things.

It makes sense that images in DMs require the user's login to retrieve. We aren't going to fix that any time soon. I'd be tempted to remove the download URL...

The only issue with this is that someone with 40K followers might well want to retrieve the handles for their DMs but not sit there and download all the followers....

#83 also stores full user data, in the cache file.