Simple script to export Twist Data

This README is true and correct as of 14th June 2020.
All future incompatibilities should be blamed on the passage of time.
DISCLAIMER: I am not associated with Twist (or Doist), other than having tried to use the product and wanting to export the data when it did not work out.

This set of scripts helps you to export your Twist Data by connecting to the the Twist API and retrieving a set of JSON files that contain your workspaces, channels, groups, threads and messages.

This script was written by a rank amateur, who learnt to code in python less than 24 hours before these words were written. Although the lack of skill is laughable, also remember: USE WITH CAUTION.

These scripts have been written and tested with Python 3.8.3, however I don't foresee that things will break in other versions. If you do find bugs with other versions, they are not bugs.

In order to use these scripts follow these steps in precisely this order:

1. Create an integration in the Twist. When creating this, ensure that you have selected "General Integration". (Please go through the Twist Help for how to do this, this README has limited real estate.)

2. Now in the integration settings on the Twist site, go to the OAuth section and find the token marked as "OAuth2 test token".

If you are unable to execute steps 1 & 2, don't email me, just work harder at it.

3. Copy that token and paste it into the auth_key string in an oauth_key.txt file. You will need to create this file and it should contain only one line, which is the token.

DISCLAIMER: This is a workaround that uses the Twist integration testing option. This will use the permissions on the basis of your user scope in Twist (you is the person who is reading and enduring this arduous instruction set).

From the Twist blurb: "To get started quickly with your app development, you can use the test token to your own account without going through the authorization process. The test token will have the full scope access."

BE CAREFUL, DO NOT EXPOSE THIS TOKEN.

4. Install the "requests" and "requests_oauthlib" python modules. Usually this means running the command "pip3 install requests requests_oauthlib". Then run this command in the scripts folder: "python3 run.py"

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