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Ask HN: How is Nitter still working?

• hirundo 3y ago
  Scraping?
  • mdwalters 3y ago
    That's what I thought, but X has a ratelimit, so there would have been ratelimit messages like crazy on there.
• mattl 3y ago
  Twitter hasn't fully removed their APIs just yet.
• speedgoose 3y ago
  In the readme they say they use the unofficial API: "Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)". Browsing quickly the source code, it looks like they maintain a pool of short lived guest tokens using magic constants probably grabbed while doing reverse engineering. Some code looks very much to be about the rate limits too. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f09155951210a374cc7/src/consts.nim https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f... https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f09155951210a374cc7/src/tokens.nim https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/d7ca353a55ea3440a2ec1f...
• gadders 3y ago
  Nice try, Elon.