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JustAnotherArchivist / snscrape

A social networking service scraper in Python
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Possible to scrape view count of tweets? #961

Closed robookwus closed 1 year ago

robookwus commented 1 year ago

Describe the feature

Hello, firstly thanks @JustAnotherArchivist for maintaining this awesome package! I want to do some analysis of public opinion on climate protests, using Tweets as a source. In order to weight the tweets I can use likes and retweet count, but on the website twitter.com you will see a View count (relatively recently implemented) that would be a great way for me to see how much traction a particular Tweet got.

I might be overseeing something, but I have not found an option to scrape the view count of particular tweets? If an option exists to scrape it with snscrape how do I do it? If it does not exist, I would love to see it implemented, given that like and retweet count are already there it would probably be an easy add-on. Thank you, robookwus

Would this fix a problem you're experiencing? If so, specify.

not being able to see views

Did you consider other alternatives?

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JustAnotherArchivist commented 1 year ago

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robookwus commented 1 year ago

thanks, sorry apparently i am blind. checked the tweet class more than once but somehow overlooked viewCount. Thank you so much! really awesome to be able to scrape tweets these days.