Module:TwitterSnowflake
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This is a Lua module to translate snowflakes from platforms such as Twitter and Discord to timestamps. This can be used for automatically generating dates for templates like {{cite tweet}}.
Usage
There is one required parameter: |id_str=, which must be the snowflake ID of the tweet. For example, 1345021162959503360.
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=1345021162959503360}} returns Script error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table..
To specify the date format, use |format=.
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=1345021162959503360|format=%e %B %Y}} returns Script error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table. — useful to specify, especially for use in CS1 citations, in case the default date format would change in the future (though unlikely).
Custom epoch
By default, the epoch used is that of Twitter. To specify a different epoch, such as that of Twitter, use |epoch=. The epoch of Discord is 1420070400
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=797545051047460888|epoch=1420070400}} returns Script error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table..
See also
local p = {};
p.snowflakeToDate = function (id_str, format, epoch)
format = format or "!%c"
epoch = epoch or 1288834974
if type(id_str) ~= "string" then error("bad argument #1 (expected string, got " .. type(id_str) .. ")", 2) end
if type(format) ~= "string" then error("bad argument #2 (expected string, got " .. type(format) .. ")", 2) end
if type(epoch) ~= "number" then error("bad argument #3 (expected number, got " .. type(epoch) .. ")", 2) end
local hi, lo = 0, 0
local hiexp = 1
for c in id_str:gmatch "." do
lo = lo * 10 + tostring(c)
if lo >= 2^32 then
hi, lo = hi * 10^hiexp + math.floor(lo / 2^32), lo % 2^32
hiexp = 1
else hiexp = hiexp + 1 end
end
local timestamp = math.floor((hi * 1024 + math.floor(lo / 4194304)) / 1000) + epoch
return os.date(format, timestamp)
end