Scrape usernames from a text file

[Bri]

Hi Martin

Is there a way to scrape @usernames from a text file.

The text file will include more than just the username, but obviously I want to scrape the username only from a selected .txt file?

Regards

[martin@rootjazz]

not with the program no

[Bri]

Any chance of such a feature being implemented?

[martin@rootjazz]

Not really, probably you can find something online as is not related to twitter.

Probably can do it in notepad++ or any other regex compatible text editor: remove all words not starting with @, then replace space " " with a newline \r\n

[Bri]

Scraping Twitter username is not related to Twitter ok

[martin@rootjazz]

Scraping Twitter username is not related to Twitter ok

Maybe I have misunderstood. You said you have a text file and want to extract @mentions from the text file? So not related to the app or explicitly twitter, just you want @mentions from a file. So is a very specific single user request that you may use once or twice and no one else will. Thus I need to factor in time for adding it and the usage it will get. Then factor that time against how long it will take you to do it manually.

search for @ in the file, copy and paste the mention to another file and move on to the next. How long that take you? 5 minutes?

Thus is not really a priority to do your text file processing for you. Did you try searching online for mentions extraction from a text?