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
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!