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)
twitterscraper
Scrape Twitter for Tweets (by taspinar)
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| TWINT | twitterscraper | |
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| 77 | 2 | |
| 13,272 | 2,366 | |
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| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 2 years ago | over 1 year 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
twitterscraper
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Is there a tool that lets you download your liked tweets or get them to an excel file?
As for self-contained tools, https://github.com/taspinar/twitterscraper is a great little python tool that can help with tweet downloading. It's not quite as powerful and I haven't used it in some time so I'm not sure if it still works with the twitter changes, but definitely worth a shot.
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How to scrape Twitter data and do analysis?
Twitter data tends to get gigantic, and coupled with the one-week-limit of their API it is tricky to acquire suitable historic data. The API actually allows searches further in the past, e.g. https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=(%23metoo)%20until%3A2020-01-01%20since%3A2019-01-01&src=typed_query%20until%3A2020-01-01%20since%3A2019-01-01&src=typed_query) But that will not give you the tweets in a form suitable for processing. Tools like TwitterScraper attempt to do this automatically, but Twitter has gotten more strict in its rate limits, and in my experience it basically does not work any more.
What are some alternatives?
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Profil3r - OSINT tool that allows you to find a person's accounts and emails + breached emails 🕵️
lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans™
ripme - Downloads albums in bulk
delete-tweets - Delete tweets from your timeline.
python-goose - Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python