Here, you can learn how you can explore all the conversations stored in your archive.
Important note: Direct messages are only available on GDPR archives (archive.is_gdpr === true).
Access to the DMArchive object with .messages accessor in TwitterArchive instance.
The DMArchive object is a container for Conversations objects.
Please note that every conversation may have one or more participants and the screen name of each participant is unknown. Conversation are only aware of Twitter's user identifiers.
Learn how to explore DMs in a Conversation object in Explore a single conversation.
DMArchive.all: Conversation[]
Access to every conversation stored.
// List every conversation stored in archive
archive.messages.all
.map(e => `Conversation #${e.id} between #${[...e.participants].join(', #')}`)DMArchive.groups: Conversation[]
Retrives the group conversations only.
DMArchive.directs: Conversation[]
Retrives the directs (between less or equal than two users) conversations.
DMArchive.count: number
Number of messages in this archive.
DMArchive.length: number
Number of conversations in this archive.
DMArchive.dms: GlobalConversation
Get a conversation who contains every message. This "breaks" the per-conversation based system of the DMs.
Warning: First access to this property cause the creation of the GlobalConversation instance, which need to index every message one by one, by ID and by date. This could be time-consuming and memory inefficient if the number of direct messages is very large, so please take care !
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