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//Allegedly never tested on the twitter website
function scrapeScreen(){
    let articles = Array.from(document.getElementsByTagName("article"));
    let results = [];
    for(let tweet of articles){
        const isAnAd = Array.from(tweet.querySelectorAll("span")).map((e)=>e.textContent).includes("Ad");
        if(isAnAd){
            //console.log(tweet, "is an ad. Skipping...");
            continue;
        }
        const userName = tweet.querySelector("[data-testid='User-Name'] > div:nth-child(2) > div > div")?.textContent;
        const tweetContent = tweet.querySelector("[data-testid='tweetText']")?.textContent;
        const timeStamp = tweet.querySelector("time")?.getAttribute("datetime");
        const tweetLink = tweet.querySelector("time")?.parentElement?.getAttribute("href");
        if((!userName) || (!tweetContent)) continue;
        results.push({
            username: userName,
            tweetText: tweetContent,
            timeStamp: timeStamp,
            tweetLink: tweetLink
        });
    }
    return results;
}
let scraped = scrapeScreen();
setInterval(()=>{
    scraped = scraped.concat(
        scrapeScreen().filter((tweet)=>{
            for(let scrapedTweet of scraped){
                if(scrapedTweet.username == tweet.username && scrapedTweet.tweetText == tweet.tweetText) return false;
            }
            return true;
        })
    );
}, 500); //Scrape everything on the screen twice a second

window.scrollIntervalId = setInterval(function(){
    window.scrollBy(0, 1000);
}, 500); //Scroll for me


//http://bgrins.github.io/devtools-snippets/#console-save
(function(console){

console.save = function(data, filename){

 if(!data) {
 console.error('Console.save: No data')
 return;
 }

 if(!filename) filename = 'console.json'

 if(typeof data === "object"){
 data = JSON.stringify(data, undefined, '\t')
 }

 var blob = new Blob([data], {type: 'text/json'}),
 e = document.createEvent('MouseEvents'),
 a = document.createElement('a')

 a.download = filename
 a.href = window.URL.createObjectURL(blob)
 a.dataset.downloadurl = ['text/json', a.download, a.href].join(':')
 e.initMouseEvent('click', true, false, window, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null)
 a.dispatchEvent(e)
 }
})(console)

setTimeout(()=>{
    clearTimeout(window.scrollIntervalId);
    delete window.scrollIntervalId;

    console.save(scraped, "TwitterScrape" + Date.now() + ".json");
}, 60 * 1000 * 20); //Twenty minutes
//Retries maxRetries number of times, meaning that if you have 0, then it'll run the function once.
async function retryPromise(promiseFn, maxRetries = 3, delayOffset = 0, delayRandomRange = 0) {
	return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
		promiseFn()
			.then(resolve, (error) => { //On error
				if (maxRetries <= 0) {
					return reject(error);
				} else {
					if(delayRandomRange * Math.random() + delayOffset < 1.0){
						return retryPromise(promiseFn, maxRetries - 1, delayOffset, delayRandomRange).then(resolve, reject);
					}else{
						return new Promise((resolveTwo, rejectTwo) => {
							setTimeout(() => {
								return retryPromise(promiseFn, maxRetries - 1, delayOffset, delayRandomRange).then(resolveTwo, rejectTwo);
							}, delayRandomRange * Math.random() + delayOffset);
						}).then(resolve, reject);
					}
				}
			});
	});
}

//Tests for that function.

//Returns a function that will fail numTimes times, then will return aValue
function functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(numTimes, aValue){
	return async function(){
		if(numTimes == 0){
			return aValue;
		}
		numTimes--;
		throw false;
	};
}

const SMALL_NUMBER = 10;

function testTest(failNumberOfTimes){

	let functionThatFailsACoupleTimes = functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(failNumberOfTimes, true);

	//Test my test
	for(let i = 0; i < (failNumberOfTimes * 2); ++i){
		function evalTest(val){
			let testTestFailedReason = "";
			if(val === undefined){
				testTestFailedReason = "Test test returned undefined for some reason.";
			}
			if((i + 1) > failNumberOfTimes){
				if(val === true){
					//We're good
				}else{
					testTestFailedReason = "Test test didn't return true when it should have.";
				}
			}else{
				if(val === false){
					//We're good
				}else{
					testTestFailedReason = "Test test didn't return false when it should have.";
				}
			}
			testTestFailedReason = testTestFailedReason || "Test test passed test case";
			console.log(testTestFailedReason, "at index", i, "where the function returned", val);
		}
		functionThatFailsACoupleTimes().then(evalTest, evalTest)
	};
}

testTest(SMALL_NUMBER);

let testCaseCounter = 1;

const throwsNoError = [
	(val)=>{
		if(val == true){
			console.log("Passed test case " + (testCaseCounter++));
		}else{
			console.error("Unexpected return value", val);
		}
	},
	()=>{
		console.error("It wasn't supposed to fail!")
	}
]

const throwsError = [
	(val)=>{
		console.error("It wasn't supposed to succeed!", val);
	},
	(val)=>{
		if(val == false){
			console.log("Passed test case " + (testCaseCounter++));
		}else{
			console.error("Unexpected return value", val);
		}
	}
];

//Runs SMALL_NUMBER times, because SMALL_NUMBER - 1 is the number of retries after the first one
let functionThatFailsACoupleTimes = functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(SMALL_NUMBER - 1, true);

retryPromise(functionThatFailsACoupleTimes, SMALL_NUMBER - 1).then(...throwsNoError)

functionThatFailsACoupleTimes = functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(SMALL_NUMBER - 1, true);

//Runs SMALL_NUMBER - 1 times, because SMALL_NUMBER - 2 is the number of retries after the first one
retryPromise(functionThatFailsACoupleTimes, SMALL_NUMBER - 2).then(...throwsError)

//Testing the delay. You'll have to wait a bit too.

functionThatFailsACoupleTimes = functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(SMALL_NUMBER - 1, true);

//Runs SMALL_NUMBER times, because SMALL_NUMBER - 1 is the number of retries after the first one
retryPromise(functionThatFailsACoupleTimes, SMALL_NUMBER - 1, 500, 500).then(...throwsNoError)

functionThatFailsACoupleTimes = functionThatReturnsAFunctionThatFailsACoupleTimes(SMALL_NUMBER - 1, true);

//Runs SMALL_NUMBER - 1 times, because SMALL_NUMBER - 2 is the number of retries after the first one
retryPromise(functionThatFailsACoupleTimes, SMALL_NUMBER - 2, 500, 500).then(...throwsError)