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twint
Python2018–2023
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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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What it is

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-12-16 15:26:52 UTC to 2023-04-15 03:50:41 UTC.

01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Anyone who monitors what is being sent from their own computers over their own networks sees the Bearer token. Everyone, including any member of the public, who visits twitter.com gets the same Bearer token. No need to have an "account" with Twitter or to be "logged in". One can simulate this with cURL. js=$(curl -sA "" https://twitter.com|grep -m1 -o "https://abs.twimg.com/responsive-web/client-web-legacy/main[^\"]*"); curl -A "" $js|tr , '\n'|grep -o \"AAAA.*\" The same Bearer token value is used by people around the web for retrieving public tweets. It's public information. For example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61140863/python-download... https://github.com/twintproject/twint/raw/master/twint/run.p... https://pypi.org/project/ScrapeTweets/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67137294/twitter-scrapin... https://githu
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