bisguzar/twitter-scraper

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4005 stars · 594 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Python library that scrapes Twitter's frontend JavaScript API without authentication, letting users fetch tweets from profiles or hashtags. It returns tweet data as dictionaries with no API rate limits or official API keys required.

Use cases

• scrape tweets from a twitter user without api key
• get tweets from a hashtag in python
• fetch tweet text and metadata without authentication
• collect twitter data for analysis
• download a user's tweets programmatically

When to choose

• you need tweet data without registering for the official Twitter API
• you want a simple Python function-call interface for scraping tweets
• you're doing small-scale, non-critical scraping of public tweets

When to avoid

• you need a maintained tool - the project has been inactive since ~2020 and Twitter's frontend has changed since
• you need reliable, production-grade access to Twitter data
• you need features beyond basic tweet fetching like posting or DMs
• you need compliance with Twitter's terms of service

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

web-scraping http-client parser social-media crawlers developer-tools python cross-platform twitter no-authentication frontend-api tweets reverse-engineered-api

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