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Maybe it is a good idea to ease the load on the API by scraping the HTML pages of twitter. Follower count is right there. This solution is only partially ugly
by mosselman 14y ago
Maybe it is a good idea to ease the load on the API by scraping the HTML pages of twitter. Follower count is right there.
This solution is only partially ugly if you are only after the follower count of a username.
- 9mit3t2m9h9a 14y agoActually, loading follower list via HTML page of twitter could also be a viable idea - more viable than playing by the rules, at least.
- mittermayr 14y agodoesn't work. tried this briefly at the beginning but they return error pages after a certain amount of calls per IP. and no, splitting up to many IPs isn't feasible. unfortunately.