anthrax3 / twitter-scraper

Scrape the Twitter Frontend API without authentication.

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['text'])
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.
…

It appears you can ask for up to 25 pages of tweets reliably (~486 tweets).

Markov Example

First, install markovify:

$ pipenv install markovify

>>> import markovify

>>> tweets = '\n'.join([t['text'] for t in get_tweets('kennethreitz', pages=25)])
>>> text_model = markovify.Text(tweets)

>>> print(text_model.make_short_sentence(140))
Wtf you can’t use APFS on a prototype for “django-heroku”, which does a lot out of me.

Installation

$ pipenv install twitter-scraper

Only Python 3.6+ is supported

LICENSE

MIT