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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my name is Daniel tulips liu ,a chinese man.
I have installed windows subsystem ubunt 18.04 . and my computer has already install pytho3-pip,
when use git to clonte the code to my computer ,and run pip3 install -r requesments.txt .
then ,tpye the code : twint --help ,every thing is right .
but ,when i use scraping ,my computer get the wrong result.
like this
tulipsliu@DanielComputer:/mnt/c/Users/tulipsliu$ twint -u tulipsliu --search "matlab"
CRITICAL:root:twint.get:User:Cannot connect to host twitter.com:443 ssl:True [Connect call failed ('2001::4a75:b6b7', 443, 0, 0)]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/bin/twint", line 11, in
load_entry_point('twint==2.1.21', 'console_scripts', 'twint')()
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 311, in run_as_command
main()
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 303, in main
run.Search(c)
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 386, in Search
run(config, callback)
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 285, 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/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 211, in main
await task
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 228, in run
raise ValueError("Cannot find twitter account with name = " + self.config.Username)
ValueError: Cannot find twitter account with name = tulipsliu
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pip3 install --user --upgrade -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint
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Description of Issue
Environment Details
my name is Daniel tulips liu ,a chinese man.
I have installed windows subsystem ubunt 18.04 . and my computer has already install pytho3-pip, when use git to clonte the code to my computer ,and run pip3 install -r requesments.txt . then ,tpye the code : twint --help ,every thing is right .
but ,when i use scraping ,my computer get the wrong result.
like this
tulipsliu@DanielComputer:/mnt/c/Users/tulipsliu$ twint -u tulipsliu --search "matlab" CRITICAL:root:twint.get:User:Cannot connect to host twitter.com:443 ssl:True [Connect call failed ('2001::4a75:b6b7', 443, 0, 0)] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/bin/twint", line 11, in
load_entry_point('twint==2.1.21', 'console_scripts', 'twint')()
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 311, in run_as_command
main()
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/cli.py", line 303, in main
run.Search(c)
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 386, in Search
run(config, callback)
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 285, 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/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 211, in main
await task
File "/home/tulipsliu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twint/run.py", line 228, in run
raise ValueError("Cannot find twitter account with name = " + self.config.Username)
ValueError: Cannot find twitter account with name = tulipsliu