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Mincka / DMArchiver

A tool to archive the direct messages, images and videos from your private conversations on Twitter
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Twitter account being locked due to suspected Robot #37

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Hi, twice now when using DMArchiver I've had my Twitter account locked because they think I'm using a robot (which I am, technically) to do something bad (which I'm not).

Both times it's easy to unlock using ReCaptcha or SMS code - I'm assuming it's because of the speed of the requests being made.

Would it be possible to add an optional argument to introduce a delay between requests, to more closely resemble normal browser action?

eg. -td 10 (10 second delay between requests)

Thanks for an excellent program.

Mincka commented 7 years ago

Hi, Did you have this issue using the versions 0.1.9 or 0.2.0?

The previous versions may be stuck in an infinite loop because of an update in the Twitter code.

Anyway, I will add a parameter to add a delay for the conversation and message retrieval loops.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Can only say 0.1.9, it happened today when I ran it then I saw you had updated to 0.2.0 (about 5 hours beforehand). I've run 0.2.0 once and it worked but it took a dozen or so runs of 0.1.9 before the problem first appeared.

Thank you for the option.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Just an update to this, I had my account blocked while using 0.2.0 to download new messages yesterday.

Forgot to pause the CLI window so didn't catch the error.

Mincka commented 6 years ago

-d / --delay option implemented in 0.2.1 a8fe118c202315417471586b4c956f3098fa1047