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Isn’t GraphQL self describing?

• wraptile 4y ago
  Not necessarily. There are so many ways to obfuscate it and generally public facing graphql endpoints have introspection and all of those convenience features disabled. To add, Twitter's backend has a bunch of layers on top of it. I did a bit of reverse engineering for my blog article on scraping Twitter [1] and there's a bit of magic token/header generation involved. Good resource if you'd like to learn more about how the whole backend works is Nitter [2] which implements most graphql functions in Nim (it's very readable even if you don't know Nim). 1 - https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/#scraping-profiles https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/#scraping-pro... 2 - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter