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diff --git a/www-apps/twint/metadata.xml b/www-apps/twint/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c62db2640 --- /dev/null +++ b/www-apps/twint/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> + +<pkgmetadata> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com</email> + <name>Alessandro Barbieri</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription> + 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: + + Can fetch almost all Tweets (Twitter API limits to last 3200 Tweets only); + Fast initial setup; + Can be used anonymously and without Twitter sign up; + No rate limitations. + +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. + </longdescription> + <upstream> + <remote-id type="github">twintproject/twint</remote-id> + <remote-id type="pypi">twint</remote-id> + </upstream> +</pkgmetadata> |