Will it be blocked by Twitter in the future?

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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Will it be blocked by Twitter in the future? #554

Closed sonictl closed 4 years ago

sonictl commented 4 years ago

I'm newbee of Twint but I love it so much. Twint can crawl twitter messages without logging in. It's already pretty powerful. Now twitter's API adds a lot of restrictions. Obviously, twint's features are something twitter is not happy to see. I'm worried that twint will be blocked by twitter. Technically, is it possible? Will it happen in the future?

pielco11 commented 4 years ago

Twint does not actually crawl Twitter since the webpage requires JS to be rendered.

Anyway, as you may guess, I don't have the answer to your question. We'll see what will happen