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X archive guide

How to Download Your X (Twitter) Archive and What's Inside

How to request your X archive, what the zip holds (posts, long posts, likes, DMs, Grok chats), and what's missing: there is no bookmarks file.

Direct answer

As of September 2026, go to Settings and privacy, then Your account, then Your X data. Confirm with the code X sends you and click Request data. X emails you or sends a notification when the zip is ready. Inside is Your archive.html, a viewer you open in a browser, and a data folder. Your posts are in data/tweets.js, the full text of long posts in data/note-tweet.js, and your likes in data/like.js. The archive has no bookmarks file.

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When to use this

  • You want a copy of everything you've posted.
  • You're leaving X, or want a backup first.
  • You want to know what the files in the zip are before you use them.

Steps

  1. On X, open Settings and privacy, then Your account (some accounts show Account), then Your X data under Data and permissions.
  2. Confirm it's you with the code X emails or texts you.
  3. Click Request data next to your X account.
  4. Wait for the email or notification, then download the .zip.
  5. Open Your archive.html in a browser to look through it, or upload the zip to the X Archive to Markdown tool to get Markdown.

Example

Before
Your archive.html
assets/
data/
  account.js
  tweets.js
  note-tweet.js
  like.js
  direct-messages.js
  grok-chat-item.js
  tweets_media/
After
data/tweets.js starts with:
window.YTD.tweets.part0 = [
  { "tweet": { "id_str": "...", "full_text": "...", "favorite_count": "12", ... } }
]

Common mistakes

  • There is no bookmarks file. An archive generated in June 2026 had no bookmark.js. People use separate tools to save bookmarks.
  • The data files are JavaScript, not plain JSON. Each starts with window.YTD.<name>.part0 = before the JSON array, so a JSON reader fails until you strip that.
  • Posts over 280 characters are cut short in tweets.js. The full text lives in note-tweet.js.
  • Likes carry the liked post's id, text and link, but no date you liked it.
  • The zip is large if you posted many images and videos. One archive we checked was 357 MB zipped, with 6,504 files.

Tools for this job

FAQ

Is there a bookmarks file in the X archive?
No. An archive generated in June 2026 had no bookmark.js. Open-source tools such as xarchive and tweetxvault save bookmarks separately.
What's in the X archive?
Your posts (tweets.js), the full text of long posts (note-tweet.js), likes (like.js), articles (article.js), Grok chats (grok-chat-item.js), direct messages, followers, following, ad data, and media folders such as tweets_media. It also has Your archive.html, an offline viewer.
Does the archive include like and repost counts?
Yes. Each of your posts in tweets.js has favorite_count and retweet_count as of the day the archive was made.
Why are my links t.co links?
X stores links in post text as t.co short links and keeps the real address next to them in the post's entities. The X Archive to Markdown tool swaps them back.

Sources

Checked September 2026.

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