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An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2018-12-16 · latest 2023-04-15

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  1. …public information. For example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61140863/python-download... https://github.com/twintproject/twint/raw/master/twint/run.p... https://pypi.org/project/ScrapeTweets/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6713…
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2023-04-15 · in Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
  2. Related but archived (scraper): https://github.com/twintproject/twint
    comment by construct0 · 2023-04-13 · in Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
  3. …so its designed for that. Its not perfect but its better than anything else Ive seen short of https://github.com/twintproject/twint and its still faster and smaller than installing Python. The future of the web could be that users request…
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2021-09-13 · in Show HN: TweeView – A Tree Visualisation of Twitter Conversations
  4. https://github.com/twintproject/twint This is a much more advanced OSINT tool which can provide you better information if you really want to search for tweets within a specific area, or around a specific timeframe. Here is an example…
    comment by twosdai · 2021-01-15 · in A CSV file with 80k tweets from the day of the capitol hill riots
  5. Looks like you could just paste your auth header right here: https://github.com/twintproject/twint/blob/a5df26d988109838d...
    comment by jchook · 2020-04-13 · in Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
  6. I noticed that you don't use tweepy ( https://github.com/twintproject/twint#requirements ). Can you highlight the difference?
    comment by _____smurf_____ · 2020-04-13 · in Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python
  7. A side note: next time you want to scrape Twitter use https://github.com/twintproject/twint which is relatively faster and use some tricks to avoid scraping defense techniques.
    comment by wslh · 2019-01-30 · in Advice to new programmers