# Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python

A project written in Python to get old tweets, it bypass some limitations of Twitter Official API.

Repository: https://github.com/Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/getoldtweets-python
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-07-19T23:04:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3869, "days_push": 1141, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1340, forks 790 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:26.047870+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, data-science, etl
- domain: social-media, data-science, crawlers
- platform: python
- tags: twitter, tweets, scraping, python2, unofficial-api

## Member repositories
- Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.047870+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:43:46.996138+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.047870+00:00, sha e7a203ed0df1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.