JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

snscrape is a Python-based scraper for social networking services that extracts posts, profiles, hashtags, and search results from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Mastodon, Telegram, VK, and Weibo. It works both as a command-line tool with JSONL output and as a Python library.

Use cases

• scrape all tweets by a twitter user
• collect posts with a hashtag on twitter or instagram
• download telegram channel history
• archive reddit subreddit posts via pushshift
• export social media posts as l for analysis
• fetch a user profile from vk or weibo
• gather mastodon toots from a user or thread

When to choose

• you need to collect public social media posts without official API keys
• you want JSONL output with rich metadata for research or archiving
• you need a lightweight CLI that pipes into other tools
• you want to use scraping as a Python library

When to avoid

• you need authenticated or private content access
• you need guaranteed reliability — platforms frequently change and break scrapers
• you need official API compliance or terms-of-service-safe collection
• you need a maintained library — development has slowed and some scrapers (e.g. Twitter) may be broken

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

web-scraping cli data-generation social-media crawlers developer-tools python cli cross-platform social-media-scraper twitter reddit instagram mastodon telegram l-output archiving command-line

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