Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python

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1340 stars · 790 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Python library that retrieves old tweets by mimicking the JSON calls Twitter Search makes in the browser, bypassing the official API's time-range limitations. It provides Tweet, TweetManager, and TwitterCriteria classes plus CSV export.

Use cases

• scrape old tweets beyond the 7-day official API limit
• get all tweets from a specific user's account
• search historical tweets by keyword and date range
• export tweets to csv for analysis
• collect tweets near a geographic location

When to choose

• you need historical tweets and cannot pay for the official Twitter API
• you want a simple Python interface with date, username, and query filters
• you are doing retrospective social media research on older data

When to avoid

• you need a maintained tool - Twitter's search endpoint changes frequently and this project is abandoned
• you are on Python 3 without accepting experimental got3 support
• you need authenticated API features like posting or streaming

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

web-scraping data-science etl social-media data-science crawlers python twitter tweets scraping python2 unofficial-api

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