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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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[QUESTION] Can't install twint #614

Closed evoke0 closed 4 years ago

evoke0 commented 4 years ago

Command Ran

git clone https://github.com/twintproject/twint/ cd twint pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Description of Issue

I cloned the repository, cd into it and installed the requirements. The only weird thing till now is that when I ran the install requirements command, the "Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pandas" took a really long time, I had to let it go like that for like 2 hours over night while I was sleeping.

When I woke up and tried to run twint, I was getting the error that the command was not found. So I ran the requirements.txt once again to make sure that nothing was missing. The only weird thing that stopped appearing after a couple tries is that it showed a (red) message like this: twint has been installed into /.local/bin , please make sure this is in PATH.

But I don't know how to do that, and people explaining that on the internet are really confusing. Maybe that is the problem.

Thanks in advance, Alejandro

Environment Details

Kali Linux Light 2019.3-i386 (this version doesn't come with preinstalled tools, I preferred this as I could be adding those which I learn by time). It uses XFCE. Captura de pantalla_2019-12-19_10-56-20

evoke0 commented 4 years ago

For any reason, I ran once again requirements.txt and it worked. No idea what happened.

pielco11 commented 4 years ago

Running Twint via twint requires you to install it as package, pip3 install twint

Doing as you did, instead, gives you the ability to run Twint as module only under that directory.