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I've been wondering how freemium services like Thread Reader still operate now that Twitter is charging prohibitive prices for API access and taking measures to

I've been wondering how freemium services like Thread Reader still operate now that Twitter is charging prohibitive prices for API access and taking measures to prevent scraping. The cheapest API plan with read access is $100/month, which reads 10,000 tweets, so could only produce about 500 pages like this one on demand.

errantmind 3y ago
There was a post on HN recently with a workaround these apps are using. I don't have it handy but I'm sure you can find it if you look.
- n1c 3y ago
  There's probably some interesting bits of info in yesterday's Nitter thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36665406
xeckr 3y ago
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); and so on and so forth.