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TweeterPy is a python library to extract data from Twitter. TweeterPy API lets you scrape data from a user's profile like username, userid, bio, followers/followings list, profile media, tweets, etc.
TweeterPy is a python library to extract data from Twitter. TweeterPy API lets you scrape data from a user's profile like username, userid, bio, followers/followings list, profile media, tweets, etc.
Note :
Use it on Your Own Risk. Scraping with Residential proxies is advisable while extracting data at scale/in bulk. If possible, use multiple accounts to fetch data from Twitter.
DON'T USE YOUR PERSONAL ACCOUNT FOR SCRAPING PURPOSES.
Install TweeterPy with pip
pip install tweeterpy
python quickstart.py
OR
from twitter import TweeterPy
# proxy = {'http': 'proxy_here', 'https': 'proxy_here'}
proxy = None
TweeterPy(proxies=proxy, log_level="INFO")
Example - Get User ID of a User.
from tweeterpy import TweeterPy
twitter = TweeterPy()
print(twitter.get_user_id('elonmusk'))
Check out step by step guide.
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TweeterPy is a python library to extract data from Twitter. TweeterPy API lets you scrape data from a user's profile like username, userid, bio, followers/followings list, profile media, tweets, etc.
We found that tweeterpy demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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