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JustAnotherArchivist / snscrape

A social networking service scraper in Python
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Twitter: "RuntimeError: Unable to find min-position" for empty users #41

Closed JustAnotherArchivist closed 5 years ago

JustAnotherArchivist commented 5 years ago

Example: https://twitter.com/Eric_Andrieu

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".../bin/snscrape", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('snscrape', 'console_scripts', 'snscrape')()
  File ".../snscrape/cli.py", line 111, in main
    for i, item in enumerate(scraper.get_items(), start = 1):
  File ".../snscrape/modules/twitter.py", line 99, in get_items
    feed, maxPosition = self._get_feed_from_html(r.text, True)
  File ".../snscrape/modules/twitter.py", line 40, in _get_feed_from_html
    raise RuntimeError('Unable to find min-position')
RuntimeError: Unable to find min-position
JustAnotherArchivist commented 5 years ago

This also happens for users which are affected by #4.