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@the-convocation/twitter-scraper
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A port of n0madic/twitter-scraper to Node.js.
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 tokens needed. No restrictions. Extremely fast.
You can use this library to get the text of any user's Tweets trivially.
This package requires Node.js v15.10.0 or greater.
NPM:
npm install @the-convocation/twitter-scraper
Yarn:
yarn add @the-convocation/twitter-scraper
TypeScript types have been bundled with the distribution.
We use Conventional Commits, and enforce this with precommit checks.
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A port of n0madic/twitter-scraper to Node.js.
The npm package @the-convocation/twitter-scraper receives a total of 486 weekly downloads. As such, @the-convocation/twitter-scraper popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @the-convocation/twitter-scraper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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