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rjshanahan / twitter_scraper

Web Scraper for Twitter pages
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Restricted accounts are not scrapable #3

Open DonaldTsang opened 6 years ago

DonaldTsang commented 6 years ago

Accounts like https://twitter.com/jackiec57 are not scrapable using traditional means.
@hridaydutta123 I would like to say that the two account I showed you recently has been de-restricted, but jackiec is shadowbanned, so this one should be used as a tester instead.

Some info on logging in: in https://twitter.com/settings/safety there is a check box for showing sensitive content, it needs to be ticked so that the repetitive need to check the twitter profile page becomes unnecessary.

hridaydutta123 commented 6 years ago

@DonaldTsang How to check whether a particular account is shadowbanned as you mentioned for https://twitter.com/jackiec57? The profile is opening normally without any warnings.

DonaldTsang commented 6 years ago

@hridaydutta123 Try searching for that specific person's tweets without logging in. It will show nothing.
See: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Ajackiec57

DonaldTsang commented 6 years ago

More examples https://github.com/Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python/issues/172