Is TWINT a DOM scraper? [Question]

twintproject / twint

An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.

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Is TWINT a DOM scraper? [Question] #1195

Open noahra opened 3 years ago

noahra commented 3 years ago

This is just a technical question. Does Twint use DOM scraping?

rogerksho commented 3 years ago

afaik theres no other way to bypass twitter's api request limit, so i'm pretty sure it scrapes with DOM