twitter-scraper 0.1.1

Twitter Scraper

Twitter’s API is annoying to work with, and has lots of limitations — luckily their frontend (JavaScript) has it’s own API, which I reverse–engineered. No API rate limits. No restrictions. Extremely fast.

You can use this library to get the text of any user’s Tweets trivially.

Very useful for making markov chains.

Usage

>>> from twitter_scraper import get_tweets

>>> for tweet in get_tweets('kennethreitz', pages=1):
>>>     print(tweet)
P.S. your API is a user interface
s3monkey just hit 100 github stars! Thanks, y’all!
I’m not sure what this /dev/fd/5 business is, but it’s driving me up the wall.
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It appears you can ask for up to 25 pages of tweets reliably (~486 tweets).

Installation

$ pipenv install twitter_scraper

Only Python 3.6 is supported.