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Scrape Twitter

by pvijeh
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Does anyone know how I can scrape as many tweets as possible from a twitter account that I do not control?

Thanks

Peter
#scrape #twitter
  • Profile picture of the author IdeaBox
    Originally Posted by pvijeh View Post

    Does anyone know how I can scrape as many tweets as possible from a twitter account that I do not control?

    Thanks

    Peter
    You can do that with the Twitter API
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    • Profile picture of the author IdeaBox
      Originally Posted by Andrew H View Post

      The twitter API no longer allows you to receive tweets from others accounts.
      Since when?

      GET statuses/user_timeline

      Returns a collection of the most recent Tweets posted by the user indicated by the screen_name or user_id parameters. User timelines belonging to protected users may only be requested when the authenticated user either "owns" the timeline or is an approved follower of the owner. The timeline...

      https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew H
    oops. I just assumed so after the switch to the 1.1 API when they removed unauthenticated access.
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