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)
snscrape
A social networking service scraper in Python (by JustAnotherArchivist)
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| TWINT | snscrape | |
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| 77 | 29 | |
| 13,272 | 4,236 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.3 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 6 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
snscrape
Posts with mentions or reviews of snscrape.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
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Can someone walk me through this?
Here's what I'm trying to use: https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrapeWhat do I need to open/run any of this? My goal with this is to extract my follower list off Twitter, and I'd very much like to know how to run it on my machine instead of having someone run it for me on theirs. I can't even figure out what I need to open the Readme file.
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Exporting a telegram chat without Telegram Desktop?
snscrape? No idea if it would work on 32 bit Windows but worth a try https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape
- API to scrape tweets
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Twitter scraping for complete profiles (very large data sets)?
Try Snscrape.
- snscrape getting blocked from twitter
- Twitter search is only for logged in users now
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Auto Scrape/Search Facebook
You might have some luck with snscrape: https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape
- [Project]Topic modelling of tweets from the same user
- Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered
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How to programmatically search Twitter
I was going to suggest twint, but that's more single user focused. Maybe snscrape works for you.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing TWINT and snscrape you can also consider the following projects:
Scweet - A simple and unlimited twitter scraper : scrape tweets, likes, retweets, following, followers, user info, images...
facebook_page_scraper - Scrapes facebook's pages front end with no limitations & provides a feature to turn data into structured JSON or CSV
newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
instagram_hunter - Instagram-Hunter is a simple tool that helps you find instagram accounts.
twitterscraper - Scrape Twitter for Tweets
reddit-detective - Play detective on Reddit: Discover political disinformation campaigns, secret influencers and more
gallery-dl - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from several image hosting sites
Socialhome - A federated social home
trafilatura - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments
webtoondl - Python webcomics scraper
htmldate - Fast and robust date extraction from web pages, with Python or on the command-line
privalise - Social Media Network Focuses On Data Security And Being Community Driven Web App