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cjohn-afk / twitter-dl

A command line tool to download media from twitter profiles.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Without token #1

Open ForDefault opened 1 year ago

ForDefault commented 1 year ago

You had mentioned possibly showing how to not use the twitter api token. I was wondering if you could show/do that?

cjohn-afk commented 1 year ago

Right now I have not added functionality to get results via scraping (i.e. the only way to gather results without using the API). This may be added in the future. I welcome anyone to make a pull request to fix the issue. For now I suggest you apply to get access to the API to use this tool. I will update this issue when the functionality is added. API access, in my experience, is not hard to get.

Scraping is essentially the process of manually requesting/downloading the contents of a web page, and parsing the HTML for the content you are looking for. You can look into wget, curl or other tools (most of which have python implementations) that can manually download web pages.