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What assurances can you give that you will be around in a year because I think this could get crippled easily regardless of how you are doing the fetching on th
by iKlsR 5y ago
What assurances can you give that you will be around in a year because I think this could get crippled easily regardless of how you are doing the fetching on the backend (scraping, api, nitter). I'd love something like this to not have to wrangle with the api myself but it's giving uneasy vibes for longevity.
Edit: I tried it, got the following for "tweets from a search result"
Error: Request failed with code 429
Request exceeds account’s current package request limits. Please upgrade your package and retry or contact Twitter about enterprise access.
- nannal 5y agoSo they really were trying to sell access to the content you could fetch with a twitter api key?
- chr15m 5y agoYes that's correct. The value proposition of the site is a nice UI and access to Twitter data that does not require writing code or using a Twitter API key.
- mritchie712 5y agoThis will be gone in days if anyone uses it, it's clearly against the terms.
- chr15m 5y agoYou are right, API access has been suspended for my app. Do you know which rule or term the app violates? I am not able to find it in any of the documentation I read.
- chr15m 5y agoYour uneasy vibes for longevity turned out to be prescient. Less than 24 hours after launch Twitter suspended the account and locked my app's API access. I have appealed the suspension as I genuinely do not understand which rule the site violates, but I don't like the chances of getting it re-enabled. Thank you for checking out the project and taking the time to write a comment, much appreciated.