Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered

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  • twitter-api-client

    Implementation of X/Twitter v1, v2, and GraphQL APIs (by trevorhobenshield)

  • Huh, TIL Twitter uses GraphQL under the hood: https://github.com/trevorhobenshield/twitter-api-client/blob...

  • TWINT

    Discontinued 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.

  • Related but archived (scraper): https://github.com/twintproject/twint

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • pytweetdeck

    Wrapper library of TweetDeck's internal api.

  • murder

    Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library (by ervinb)

  • Anyone who monitors what is being sent from their own computers over their own networks sees the Bearer token.

    Everyone, including any member of the public, who visits twitter.com gets the same Bearer token.

    No need to have an "account" with Twitter or to be "logged in".

    One can simulate this with cURL.

       js=$(curl -sA "" https://twitter.com|grep -m1 -o "https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web-legacy/main[^\"]*");

  • TweetScraper

    TweetScraper is a simple crawler/spider for Twitter Search without using API

  • snscrape

    A social networking service scraper in Python

  • twspace-dl

    A python module to download twitter spaces.

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