TWINT
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. (by twintproject)
Scweet
A simple and unlimited twitter scraper : scrape tweets, likes, retweets, following, followers, user info, images... (by Altimis)
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| TWINT | Scweet | |
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| 77 | 5 | |
| 13,272 | 969 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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TWINT
Posts with mentions or reviews of TWINT.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
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Twitter will be purging accounts with no activity for several years soon. We need to archive as many as we can. Any ideas on Methods
twint is a project that can scrape twitter data via the webpages rather than the twitter API, which means that it can get more than the last 3200 tweets of an account. Unfortunately it seems that the repo was archived and is no longer in development, so I'm not sure if it even still works. It's also a bit heavy on dependencies and is written in Python, neither of which make it easier to install and use.
- How Do I Use Twint?
- NYC's transport authority will no longer post service alerts on Twitter
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New OSINT tool
The tool doesn't work anymore since Twitter changed its APIs, but a good example is twint. Most people in OSINT are not highly technical and don't know their way around a CLI. On the other hand, a CLI tool is one of the quickest, lowest (dev) cost ways to release a tool to the public, and many developers who build tools for the OSINT community do so for free (open source).
- Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
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What’s currently the best method to archive a twitter account?
You can try twint which is extensive and should be able to do that. Another is via this twitter downloader but might require multiple runs depending on what you want to archive.
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Gbf.life will be gone at the end of April
They do have examples that don't specify a username such as number 3 on this page or this one on the main page: "twint -g="48.880048,2.385939,1km" -o file.csv --csv - Scrape Tweets from a radius of 1km around a place in Paris and export them to a csv file."
- Do I have to pay now for the Twitter API if I want to use it for data analysis?
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Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data
This will motivate researchers to web scrape to circumvent these restrictions. Twint can scrape tweets and it supports proxies. It can also be multi threaded. A huge hassle and it's prone to breaking when the site changes.
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Basically the current state of granblue
The comment I saw said they used this: https://github.com/twintproject/twint
Scweet
Posts with mentions or reviews of Scweet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
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Twitter api reaching rate limit. 5calls per 15 mins just to get user likes.
hmm,, do you know any good one? I found this one but it doesn't scrape a single tweet's likes and followers https://github.com/Altimis/Scweet
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Complete noob, looking for some general pointers. (Python)
In this case you have a README that is better than most. It tells you how to use the project both as a library from within your own code and from command-line program that is included in the project.
- How do I scrape Twitter media along with text of all the accounts that I'm following without using API?
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Scraping the entirety of a private Twitter account.
Learn some Python and check this out: https://github.com/Altimis/Scweet
What are some alternatives?
When comparing TWINT and Scweet you can also consider the following projects:
snscrape - A social networking service scraper in Python
twitter-scraper-selenium - Python's package to scrap Twitter's front-end easily
newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
twMediaDownloader - Download images of user's media-timeline on Twitter.
twitterscraper - Scrape Twitter for Tweets
twitter_scraping - Grab all a user's tweets (and get past 3200 limit)
gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
ripme - Downloads albums in bulk
trafilatura - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments
htmldate - Fast and robust date extraction from web pages, with Python or on the command-line
dozent - Dozent is a powerful downloader that is used to collect large amounts of Twitter data from the internet archive.