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twid
A simple Twitter scraping in headless mode for Chrome and Firefox, written in nodejs and doesn't need the Twitter API
twid - Twitter Intelligent Download
Scraping Twitter by headless mode, no API and limit.
Install
npm i -g twid
Usage
[!NOTE]
The token option is required because cookies are required to access the Twitter user's media resources.
Simple Usage
# twid <...users>
# Two users
twid elonmusk youyuxi --token YOUR_TOKEN
--token
You can find token in devtool -> application -> Cookie(chosse https://twitter.com) -> auth_token:
twid youyuxi --token YOUR_TOKEN
Other options
twid --help
Usage:
$ twid [...users]
Commands:
[...users]
For more info, run any command with the `--help` flag:
$ twid --help
Options:
-O, --outDir [outDir] The output dir (default: twid-dist)
-T, --token <token> The auth_token of cookies
-D, --dev [dev] Dev mode, Set headless and devtools to true (default: false)
-R, --retry [proretryduct] Retry times (default: 3)
-P, --product [product] Use chrome of firefox (default: chrome)
-h, --help Display this message
FAQs
A simple Twitter scraping in headless mode for Chrome and Firefox, written in nodejs and doesn't need the Twitter API
We found that twid 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.
Package last updated on 03 Jan 2024
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