OK gang! This is ready for you to test.

python tweet2html.py --css 1234

That will take a Twitter ID and return HTML and CSS for you to embed in your website with no calling back to Twitter.

Features:  
🗣 Avatars inlined as Base64 WebP  
📸 All attached photos inlined  
🎥 Video poster inline, <video> to original source  
🔗 Hyperlinks don't use t.co  
#️⃣ Hashtags and @ mentions linked  
🕰 Semantic time  
♥ and 🗨 counts

Try it out at <https://github.com/edent/Tweet2Embed>

Feedback and pull requests very welcome!