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What do you use instead?
by chishaku 7y ago
What do you use instead?
- rovr138 7y agoHere's a comment of someone who built a tool that uses twitter's public facing but private api, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22855148
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoTook me 20 seconds to install twint, and start scraping. Took me 20 minutes to install twitter-dump, and despite a successful twitter-dump auth, I end up with 'Request exception Forbidden {"errors":[{"code":200,"message":"Forbidden."}]}'. Not going to spend time to fix that, I'll use the dirty solution that works.
- rovr138 7y agoThat's fine. I'm not saying you have to switch, but it looks like there's a way. Maybe they could combine efforts? Maybe they could look at the code, and if the licenses allow, port things to theirs.
- lorey 7y agoThere's a pretty actively-maintained Python wrapper for the internal API: https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper https://github.com/bisguzar/twitter-scraper