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It's a good day to launch a Twitter page scraping library
Sean Coates
Sean Coates  
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call it Toot Suite.
Jeff Noxon
Jeff Noxon  
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good luck getting Twitter to show the tweets you're after!
Shoq
Shoq  
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Didn't Nitter do that already? 😀
Nemo_bis 🌈
Nemo_bis 🌈  
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Can start from #Nitter.
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/389

Document Nitter's use of Twitter's internal APIs · Issue #389 · zedeus/nitter

@zedeus has done a great deal of reverse engineering Twitter's internal API, and I believe it would be very useful if it were documented somewhere. This would allow others (e.g. me) to build up...
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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I mean, all the smart security pros who can detect and prevent scrapers were laid off or quit. You'd literally have the run of the place.
stephen judkins
stephen judkins  
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I'd say they could just pay cloudflare but at their scale...
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@stephenjudkins does CF help with scrapers? I just figured they'd get your pages to scrapers extra fast.
@stephen judkins
stephen judkins
stephen judkins  
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they do bot protection and they're very good (though not perfect) at it
Atheist Art
Atheist Art  
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You've given this old school fool a new phrase and please and thank you.

Was deep in the throes of retrieving and (hoping to) sort and save about two million JPG's and PNG's. I'm PDS'ing.
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