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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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Tweep vs Tweepy #54

Closed snsie closed 6 years ago

snsie commented 6 years ago

What are some of the disadvantages of using Tweep compaired to APIs that use auth such as Tweepy? The README only lists advantages.

e.g. Will Tweep miss tweets that the Twitter API wouldn't?

grepsedawk commented 6 years ago

Tweep can fetch all tweets. Also tweep can be more secretive since you don't need an auth token

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 4:26 PM Scott Siegel notifications@github.com wrote:

What are some of the disadvantages of using Tweep compaired to APIs that use auth such as Tweepy? The README only lists advantages.

e.g. Will Tweep miss tweets that the Twitter API wouldn't?

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haccer commented 6 years ago

Good question @scottsiegel

Disadvantages of not using Twitter API: