twintproject/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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3371
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1287
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
16398 stars · 2746 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Twint is a Python CLI tool and library that scrapes tweets, followers, following, and likes from Twitter without using the official API or any authentication. It supports advanced search operators, exporting to CSV/JSON/Elasticsearch, and extracting sensitive data like emails and phone numbers from tweets.
Use cases
- scrape all tweets from a twitter user without api limits
- collect followers and following lists for osint investigations
- search tweets by hashtag or keyword and export to csv
- extract emails and phone numbers from tweets
- analyze twitter trends and topics for research
- index scraped tweets into elasticsearch and visualize with kibana
When to choose
- you need historical tweets beyond the API's 3200-tweet limit
- you want anonymous scraping with no Twitter account or API keys
- you're doing OSINT research on Twitter accounts and topics
When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool - Twitter's 2023 API changes broke Twint and it is no longer updated
- you need reliable, long-term production scraping
- you target platforms other than Twitter
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
web-scraping osint cli search-engine etl osint social-media crawlers security data-science python cli cross-platform twitter scraping no-api elasticsearch social-intelligence unmaintained docker
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/twintproject/twint · fetched 2026-08-28 · f643ca8bd469
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/twint/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 14f456942cf2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| twintproject/twint | main | 10 |
For agents
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