How to download your Twitter / X data

A complete walkthrough for requesting your Twitter / X archive — tweets, likes, followers, media, and DMs. UnplugMe parses your X archive locally in seconds. Bonus: your own tweet media ships inside the archive, so no network downloads are needed for content you posted yourself.

What you'll get

Twitter / X's "Download an archive of your data" feature gives you a ZIP containing everything in JavaScript-wrapped JSON format. Inside, you'll find:

• Every tweet you've ever posted
• Every bookmark you've saved
• Every tweet you've liked
• Direct Messages you've sent and received
• Your following and followers lists
• Media files (images and videos) you've posted
• Profile information, lists you've created, blocked/muted accounts

Important: media for your own tweets is included in the export. Likes and bookmarks are stored as references — UnplugMe handles fetching those.

Step-by-step instructions

1. Open X on the desktop web Go to x.com and sign in. Desktop is significantly more reliable than mobile for this flow — the mobile app sometimes routes through a different settings UI.
   Screenshot slot X home page with the left navigation visible.
2. Open Settings and privacy Click More in the left navigation sidebar, then click Settings and privacy.
3. Go to "Your account" In the Settings panel, click Your account at the top of the list. This is where account-level controls live, including data downloads.
   Screenshot slot The Settings sidebar with "Your account" highlighted.
4. Click "Download an archive of your data" Inside Your account, you'll see a list including Account information, Change password, and Download an archive of your data. Click that.
5. Verify your password X will prompt you to re-enter your password as a security check. Enter it and click Confirm.
   Heads up: X may also require an SMS or email verification code in addition to the password. Make sure your account's contact info is current before starting.
6. Click "Request archive" After verification, you'll see two options: Twitter (your tweet archive) and Periscope (the old livestreaming product, mostly empty). Click Request archive next to Twitter.
   Screenshot slot The data download page with "Request archive" highlighted.
7. Wait for the email X queues your archive and processes it server-side. The typical wait is about 24 hours, sometimes longer for accounts with very long history. You'll get an email when it's ready (subject: "Your X data is ready to download").
8. Click the download link in the email Open the email and click the download button. It'll bring you back to the same Download an archive page on x.com.
9. Click "Download archive" On the data download page, your archive will now have a Download archive button. Click it. The ZIP starts downloading immediately.
   Time limit: X's download link is only active for 7 days. After that, you need to request again. Don't put this off.
   Screenshot slot The download archive button after the file is ready.
10. Extract and explore the ZIP Inside the ZIP, you'll find a file called Your archive.html — open this in any browser to see a local mini version of your timeline. The raw data UnplugMe needs is in the data/ folder (files like tweets.js, like.js, direct-messages.js).
11. Open the archive with UnplugMe Unzip the file and drop the resulting folder (the one containing Your archive.html) into UnplugMe. We auto-detect Twitter / X archives and parse them locally in under two seconds — tweets, likes, followers, following, and your own media all organized into a clean local archive.
    Heads up on liked-tweet media: Twitter's archive ships the actual media for tweets you posted, but liked tweets are stored as metadata only (text + URL). A separate resolver to fetch liked-tweet media is on the post-launch roadmap.

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