{"repo":"bocchilorenzo/ntscraper","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/bocchilorenzo/ntscraper","clone":"git clone https://github.com/bocchilorenzo/ntscraper.git","description":"Scrape from Twitter using Nitter instances","language":"Python","stars":257,"topics":["nitter","python","scraper","twitter"],"license":"MIT","category":"scrapers-browser-automation","readme_excerpt":"Unofficial Nitter scraper Note Twitter has recently made some changes which affected every third party Twitter client, including Nitter. As a result, most Nitter instances have shut down or will shut down shortly. Even local instances are affected by this, so you may not be able to scrape as many tweets as expected, if at all. The scraper This is a simple library to scrape Nitter instances for tweets. It can: - search and scrape tweets with a certain term - search and scrape tweets with a certain hashtag - scrape tweets from a user profile - get profile information of a user, such as display name, username, number of tweets, profile picture ... If the instance to use is not provided to the scraper, it will use a random public instance. If you can, please host your own instance in order to avoid overloading the public ones and letting Nitter stay alive for everyone. You can read more about that here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter#installation. --- Installation How to use First, initialize the library: The valid logging levels are: - None = no logs - 0 = only warning and error logs - 1 = previous + informational logs (default) The skip instance check parameter is used to skip the check of the Nitter instances altogether during the execution of the script. If you use your own instance or trust the instance you are relying on, then you can skip set it to 'True', otherwise it's better to leave it to false. Then, choose the proper function for what you want to do from the follow","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/bocchilorenzo","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/bocchilorenzo/ntscraper/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}