scrape-twitter
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scrape-twitter 
🐦 Access Twitter data without an API key
This module provides command line interfaces to scrape: profiles, timelines, connections, likes, search and conversations.
It also exposes both streams and a promise returning function to help accessing Twitter in your own applications.
Real-time firehoses can be created using the companion module monitor-head-stream.
isReplyToId$ scrape-twitter profile sebinsua
# ...
$ scrape-twitter timeline nouswaves
# ...
This command requires a valid login. It will check for the following environment variables: TWITTER_USERNAME, TWITTER_PASSWORD, TWITTER_KDT. But can also pick these up from a dotenv file at the path ~/.scrape-twitter. The first time you login you will be asked to store the TWITTER_KDT - this is used by Twitter to recognise your device.
$ scrape-twitter likes sebinsua
# ...
This command also requires a valid login.
$ scrape-twitter connections sebinsua --type=following
# ...
$ scrape-twitter conversation ctbeiser 691766715835924484
# ...
$ scrape-twitter search --query "from:afoolswisdom motivation" --type latest
# ...
$ scrape-twitter list nouswaves list
# ...
jq, coreutils/gshuf and terminal-notifierFor example, a MOTD-like script might contain:
scrape-twitter search --query="from:afoolswisdom knowledge" | jq -r '.[].text' | gshuf -n 1 | terminal-notifier -title "Knowledge (MOTD)"
With yarn:
yarn global add scrape-twitter
With npm:
npm install -g scrape-twitter
new TimelineStream(username: string, { retweets: boolean, replies: boolean, count: ?number })Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the timeline of a username.
new LikeStream(username: string, { count: ?number, env: process.env })Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the likes of a username.
new ConnectionStream(username: string, type: 'following' | 'followers', process.env)Create a ReadableStream<UserConnection> for the connections of a username.
new ConversationStream(username: string, id: string, { count: ?number })Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the conversation that belongs to a username and tweet id.
new ThreadedConversationStream(id: string)Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the thread that belongs to a tweet id.
new TweetStream(query: string, type: 'top' | 'latest', { count: ?number })Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the tweets that match a query and type.
new ListStream(username: string, list: string, { count: ?number })Create a ReadableStream<Tweet> for the username's list.
getUserProfile(username: string)Get a Promise<UserProfile> for a particular username.
FAQs
Access Twitter data without an API key.
The npm package scrape-twitter receives a total of 15 weekly downloads. As such, scrape-twitter popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that scrape-twitter demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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