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About this fork

This repository is the fork of https://github.com/twintproject/twint and for myself.

Modified by minamotorin.

About problem of Twint from this fork, please open issues on minamotorin/twint.

Updates from twintproject/twint

twint.token.RefreshTokenException: Could not find the Guest token in HTML

This problem doesn't happen recently.

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json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

The fix is not complete. twint.run.Profile will work but values are incorrect in some keys and test.py causes an error. See also #13.

I think this is because the fields of the result table are not exactly the same as the traditional ones.

About twint.run.db, see #3 and #11.

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[-] TWINT requires Python version 3.6+.

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import name 'CeilTimeout' from 'aiohttp.helpers'

The commit that caused this problem

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Some problems with since and until

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Remove workaround for twintproject/twint#597

See #12.

Remove cChardet from dependencies

See #14.

References

License

This repository is also under the MIT License.

TWINT - Twitter Intelligence Tool

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No authentication. No API. No limits.

Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API.

Twint utilizes Twitter's search operators to let you scrape Tweets from specific users, scrape Tweets relating to certain topics, hashtags & trends, or sort out sensitive information from Tweets like e-mail and phone numbers. I find this very useful, and you can get really creative with it too.

Twint also makes special queries to Twitter allowing you to also scrape a Twitter user's followers, Tweets a user has liked, and who they follow without any authentication, API, Selenium, or browser emulation.

tl;dr Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Twint vs Twitter API:

Limits imposed by Twitter

Twitter limits scrolls while browsing the user timeline. This means that with .Profile or with .Favorites you will be able to get ~3200 tweets.

Requirements

Installing

Git:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git
cd twint
pip3 install . -r requirements.txt

Pip:

pip3 install twint

or

pip3 install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint

Pipenv:

pipenv install git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git#egg=twint

March 2, 2021 Update

Added: Dockerfile

Noticed a lot of people are having issues installing (including me). Please use the Dockerfile temporarily while I look into them.

CLI Basic Examples and Combos

A few simple examples to help you understand the basics:

More detail about the commands and options are located in the wiki

Module Example

Twint can now be used as a module and supports custom formatting. More details are located in the wiki

import twint

# Configure
c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "realDonaldTrump"
c.Search = "great"

# Run
twint.run.Search(c)

Output

955511208597184512 2018-01-22 18:43:19 GMT <now> pineapples are the best fruit

import twint

c = twint.Config()

c.Username = "noneprivacy"
c.Custom["tweet"] = ["id"]
c.Custom["user"] = ["bio"]
c.Limit = 10
c.Store_csv = True
c.Output = "none"

twint.run.Search(c)

Storing Options

Elasticsearch Setup

Details on setting up Elasticsearch with Twint is located in the wiki.

Graph Visualization

graph

Graph details are also located in the wiki.

We are developing a Twint Desktop App.

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FAQ

I tried scraping tweets from a user, I know that they exist but I'm not getting them

Twitter can shadow-ban accounts, which means that their tweets will not be available via search. To solve this, pass --profile-full if you are using Twint via CLI or, if are using Twint as module, add config.Profile_full = True. Please note that this process will be quite slow.

More Examples

Followers/Following

To get only follower usernames/following usernames

twint -u username --followers

twint -u username --following

To get user info of followers/following users

twint -u username --followers --user-full

twint -u username --following --user-full

userlist

To get only user info of user

twint -u username --user-full

To get user info of users from a userlist

twint --userlist inputlist --user-full

tweet translation (experimental)

To get 100 english tweets and translate them to italian

twint -u noneprivacy --csv --output none.csv --lang en --translate --translate-dest it --limit 100

or

import twint

c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "noneprivacy"
c.Limit = 100
c.Store_csv = True
c.Output = "none.csv"
c.Lang = "en"
c.Translate = True
c.TranslateDest = "it"
twint.run.Search(c)

Notes:

Featured Blog Posts:

Contact

If you have any question, want to join in discussions, or need extra help, you are welcome to join our Twint focused channel at OSINT team