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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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[BUG] Current version of twint cannot get tweets from a user #866

Closed adulau closed 4 years ago

adulau commented 4 years ago

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adulau@dobbertin:~$ .local/bin/twint -u CookieDeca CRITICAL:root:twint.get:User:'NoneType' object is not subscriptable Traceback (most recent call last): File ".local/bin/twint", line 8, in sys.exit(run_as_command()) File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 311, in run_as_command main() File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 303, in main run.Search(c) File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 384, in Search run(config, callback) File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 283, in run get_event_loop().run_until_complete(Twint(config).main(callback)) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/base_events.py", line 484, in run_until_complete return future.result() File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 209, in main await task File "/home/adulau/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 226, in run raise ValueError("Cannot find twitter account with name = " + self.config.Username) ValueError: Cannot find twitter account with name = CookieDeca

Description of Issue

Library or twint cannot get anymore the tweets from a specify user. This worked the 13th August 2020 and starting from Today, it seems Twitter changed something.

Environment Details

adulau@dobbertin:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic
adulau commented 4 years ago

FYI, this is not affecting searches.

adulau commented 4 years ago

Related to #863

pielco11 commented 4 years ago

Solution is 863, closing