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Scrape Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API.

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 on May 15, 2020

Have you ever wondered what's your most influential tweet since you created your Twitter profile? Or how your tweets performed in the last 30 days?...

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fitsum • May 17 '20 • Edited

this is SUPER cool. just a couple of issues with output

JSON output is invalid due to no commas between objects
db/sqlite3 option exports tables for followers, followers_names, following, following_names that are empty text and csv work as expected AFAICT

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • May 17 '20

Hi Fitsum,

thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, I am not a maintainer of twint. If you experience issues, report them on GitHub, please.

I'm sure they will be happy to help you and resolve the issues.

Marko Denic • May 15 '20

Thanks Stefan. Great article. 🙌

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • May 15 '20

Thank you, Marco, highly appreciated!

Dustin • May 15 '20

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • May 15 '20

Hi Dustin, you're welcome and thank you!

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Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jun 18 '20

Hi Julien,

you're welcome!

Ali Allaith • Sep 28 '20

Twint is not working nowadays. Any updates?

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Sep 29 '20

Hi Ali, can you tell me what didn't work, please? I am not an official maintainer, but maybe I can help.

Banji • May 16 '20

Wow
So great
Tnx for sharing bro

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • May 16 '20 • Edited

You're welcome 🥳

This Dot Media • May 15 '20

Awesome tip/hack, thanks Stefan!

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • May 16 '20

Thanks for the feedback and you're welcome. ✌🏻