Retweets being deleted even with unretweet=false

[ZhenShuo2021]

Even though unretweet=false, retweets still got deleted.

Description:

1. Use default configuration, not change any options.
2. Unable to find the UUID, so I used the endpoint https://x.com/i/api/1.1/keyregistry/register instead of the recommended client_event.json.
3. Over 1000 retweets were deleted.
4. It looks like there's no clear pattern to the deleted retweets, but most of them seem to be from before 2024, with fewer getting deleted after that. However, this is just a rough guess.

For those who may have experienced similar issues, you can recover deleted retweets by exporting the log file and using the following script:

import re

def extract_urls(input_file, output_file):
    url_pattern = r"https://t\.co/\S+"

    with open(input_file, 'r') as infile, open(output_file, 'w') as outfile:
        for line in infile:
            if "https://t.co" in line:
                urls = re.findall(url_pattern, line)
                for url in urls:
                    if "…" not in url:
                        outfile.write(url + "\n")

input_file = "x.com.log"
output_file = "extracted_urls.txt"
extract_urls(input_file, output_file)