vi eddited ~/,scrape-twitter

added:

TWITTER_USERNAME = 'username'
TWITTER_PASSWORD = 'password'

tried sample command:

scrape-twitter likes sebinsua ###(or another random account)
receive following error msg:

Error: An active login is required for this API call
at checkStatus (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/lib/query.js:11:17)
at process._tickCallback (node.js:368:9)

login shld have been succesfull (if i try same account with a wrong password i get a wrong password/username error)
how to proceed? ty

Hello i keep getting this error when trying to scrape for followers / likes:

FetchError: invalid json response body at https://twitter.com/account/access reason: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
at C:\Users.......\npm\node_modules\scrape-twitter\node_modules\node-fetch\lib\body.js:48:31
at
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)

Am relatively new to node.js, so i'm not too sure how to even start solving it. Pardon my noobness. Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks heaps

I have a problem with reading tweets, when i scrape it, it's not decoded in UTF-8 and special chars like á,ž are showed like á,Ä�, etc.. How to decode it?

Anyway, Good job! :) Amazing project 👍

When I do "scrape-twitter timeline realDonaldTrump | head -n 5" I get this:

[
{"screenName":"realDonaldTrump","id":"967564998238142471","time":"2018-02-25T01:00:46.000Z","isRetweet":false,"isPinned":false,"isReplyTo":false,"text":"I will be interviewed by @JudgeJeanine on @foxnews at 9:00 P.M. Enjoy!","userMentions":[{"screenName":"JudgeJeanine","indices":[25,38]},{"screenName":"FoxNews","indices":[42,50]}],"hashtags":[],"images":[],"urls":[],"replyCount":19726,"retweetCount":8033,"favoriteCount":43376},
{"screenName":"realDonaldTrump","id":"967563946063523840","time":"2018-02-25T00:56:35.000Z","isRetweet":false,"isPinned":false,"isReplyTo":false,"text":"“Congressman Schiff omitted and distorted key facts” @foxnews So, what else is new. He is a total phony!","userMentions":[{"screenName":"FoxNews","indices":[53,61]}],"hashtags":[],"images":[],"urls":[],"replyCount":24448,"retweetCount":17791,"favoriteCount":67794},
{"screenName":"realDonaldTrump","id":"967545724362739712","time":"2018-02-24T23:44:11.000Z","isRetweet":false,"isPinned":false,"isReplyTo":false,"text":"“Russians had no compromising information on Donald Trump” @foxnews Of course not, because there is none, and never was. This whole Witch Hunt is an illegal disgrace...and Obama did nothing about Russia!","userMentions":[{"screenName":"FoxNews","indices":[59,67]}],"hashtags":[],"images":[],"urls":[],"replyCount":27619,"retweetCount":17677,"favoriteCount":65428},
{"screenName":"realDonaldTrump","id":"967539664692350977","time":"2018-02-24T23:20:06.000Z","isRetweet":false,"isPinned":false,"isReplyTo":false,"text":"Dem Memo: FBI did not disclose who the clients were - the Clinton Campaign and the DNC. Wow!","userMentions":[],"hashtags":[],"images":[],"urls":[],"replyCount":13575,"retweetCount":20119,"favoriteCount":71728},
events.js:160
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

So the latest tweet is from a day ago. Any idea why that is?

would be great if you add a time arguments like this:

scrape-twitter search --query "from:afoolswisdom motivation" --from 04-02-2016 --to 05-02-2016

I've noticed that when I scrape a popular Twitter profile with over ten thousand tweets/followers/following/etc, the numbers I get back from the scraper are usually much smaller than they should be.

After a bit of digging, it looks like the counts in parser.js are taking the suffixed value (i.e. 15.5k) and is stripping out non-numerical characters, so 155 is returned instead of 15500.

Instead of grabbing the suffixed number, do you see any issues with grabbing the data-count attribute, and using that instead? If not, I'll create a PR and send it your way.

Hi,

I'm getting a FetchError: network timeout error. I found this goes away, if I add an exceptionally long timeout at the lines

    return fetcher(resource, { agent: https.globalAgent, timeout: 120000 })

It would be great to have a setting to set this timeout or make it part of the TweetStream options.

The number of tweets returned for a given conversation is fewer than the actual tweets I found on the web browser for that conversation.

For the given example scrape-twitter conversation ctbeiser 691766715835924484 the script returns 8 tweets. However, there are more tweets looking at https://twitter.com/ctbeiser/status/691766715835924484 on the web browser.

I wanna talk with you about something regarding to your repo and to do it faster and easier could you please give me any discord/twitter or smth like that to communicate?

ListStream's URL has moved, TweetStream might have errors (or tweets have been removed).

I have a long conversation to scrape, but it seems that the scrape-twitter conversation command only scrape the first page of the conversation. May I know if you have any function to allow scraping the twitter conversation of infinite scrolling. The conversation I am going to scrape is only shown completely after about 13 scroll. Thanks

If you disable JavaScript, you get

which takes you to a pure HTML page

Thought you'd like to know

Using the CovnersationStream results in a maximum result of only 20 replies. This is most likely because the mechanism for "show more" has been changed by Twitter.

Steps to reproduce:

scrape-twitter profile [0xdeadbade, 0xabad1dea, ...] 

Stack trace:

/usr/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/lib/cli-utils.js:11
  return (username || '').replace('@', '');
                          ^

TypeError: (username || "").replace is not a function
    at Object.parseUsername (/usr/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/lib/cli-utils.js:11:27)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/bin/scrape-twitter-profile.js:16:27)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/bin/scrape-twitter-profile.js:4:1)

I've traced the culprit code to this line in minimist:

    for (var i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
        var arg = args[i];
        
        if (/^--.+=/.test(arg)) {
            // ...
        }
        else {
            if (!flags.unknownFn || flags.unknownFn(arg) !== false) {
                argv._.push(
                    flags.strings['_'] || !isNumber(arg) ? arg : Number(arg) // Bingo
                );
            }
    // ...
    }

// ... snip ...

function isNumber (x) {
    if (typeof x === 'number') return true;
    if (/^0x[0-9a-f]+$/i.test(x)) return true; // Bingo II: This Time, It's Hecadecimal
    return /^[-+]?(?:\d+(?:\.\d*)?|\.\d+)(e[-+]?\d+)?$/.test(x);
}

Unsure if I should file this issue there or here.

The algorithm used to extract the URL is really poor. All URLs contain the last word of tweet text at the start of the url. Twitter has published its own module which contains all of their code for extracting stuff from text, including URLs called twitter-text, it's on GitHub.

If I execute scrape-twitter profile realdonaldtrump
I get the following response:

{
  "screenName": "",
  "name": "",
  "bio": "",
  "userMentions": [],
  "hashtags": [],
  "urls": [],
  "location": "",
  "joinDate": "undefined-undefined-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "tweetCount": 0,
  "followingCount": 0,
  "followerCount": 0,
  "likeCount": 0
}

But not the correct information

I've configured my enviromental variables, but I'm getting this error, any idea?

invalid json response body at https://twitter.com/pmerj/likes/timeline?include_available_features=1&include_entities=1 reason: Unexpected token <
FetchError: invalid json response body at https://twitter.com/pmerj/likes/timeline?include_available_features=1&include_entities=1 reason: Unexpected token <
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/body.js:48:31
at process._tickCallback (node.js:368:9)

Hello, I just downloaded scrape-twitter and am using it for the first time. I am experiencing an error. Apologies if this is a newbie mistake on my part :

Every scrape command I issue returns this result

/root/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.5/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/node_modules/fetch-cookie/index.js:11
  async function fetchCookie (url, opts) {
        ^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token function
    at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:542:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/root/.nvm/versions/node/v6.11.5/lib/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/lib/twitter-login.js:10:28

It shouldn't matter for $ scrape-twitter profile ... and $ scrape-twitter conversation commands, but I have set my environment variables for TWITTER_USERNAME and TWITTER_PASSWORD. The application crashes as above before Twitter responds with a KDT, if I understand the documentation correctly.

Search –query doesn’t scroll the page anymore. Only the first 20 results are returned and they are are all duplicated. I am trying to fox this … without success up to now. Twitter probably changed something.

Trying to use for the first time and cannot login, I get this error:

Could not login with username and the password supplied
Error: Could not login with smhttr and the password supplied
    at C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\scrape-twitter\dist\lib\twitter-login.js:84:15
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)

Which is from:

var location = response.headers.get('location') || '';
if (location.includes('error')) {
  debug('unable to login with ' + TWITTER_USERNAME);
  throw new Error('Could not login with ' + TWITTER_USERNAME + ' and the password supplied');
}

What do I do to fix this?

Hello,
This script is amazing and works great and I have a one question.

How to get link to the media from Tweet?
Like.. I mean.. If in tweet is video.. How to get url for mp4? or how to detect If in tweet is video?

Thanks

The documentation lacks the exact usage like this one

Help me

Hi!

I have been currently using the timeline function of the program. Is it possible to update the code by including a function which exports the results to a .json or .txt file.

Thank you very much for your attention.

I'm getting an error when importing scrape-twitter with require('scrape-twitter') which is being thrown by the expandHome function in the cli-utils.js file.

Trace:

TypeError: Path must be a string. Received undefined
    at assertPath (path.js:28:11)
    at join (path.js:1236:7)
    at expandHomeDir (/Users/Admin/Desktop/100x365/functions/node_modules/expand-home-dir/index.js:10:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Admin/Desktop/100x365/functions/node_modules/scrape-twitter/dist/lib/cli-utils.js:6:29)
    at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)

Somebody wrote to me in an email asking "could you think of any quick fix in terms of slowing down the queries and randomization?"

Getting these responses for profile and timeline (havent tested other commands just these two)

scrape-twitter profile sebinsua:
{ "screenName": "", "name": "", "bio": "", "userMentions": [], "hashtags": [], "urls": [], "location": "", "joinDate": "undefined-undefined-01T00:00:00.000Z", "tweetCount": 0, "followingCount": 0, "followerCount": 0, "likeCount": 0 }

scrape-twitter timeline nouswaves:

`invalid json response body at https://twitter.com/i/profiles/show/nouswaves/timeline?include_available_features=1&include_entities=1 reason: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
FetchError: invalid json response body at https://twitter.com/i/profiles/show/nouswaves/timeline?include_available_features=1&include_entities=1 reason: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
    at C:\Users\cooki\Desktop\bot\node_modules\scrape-twitter\node_modules\node-fetch\lib\body.js:48:31
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)

    Access Twitter data without an API key.

    Usage
      $ scrape-twitter <command>

    Commands
      profile       Get a user's profile.
      timeline      Get a user's timeline.
      likes         Get a user's likes.
      connections   Get a user's connections.
      conversation  Get a particular conversation.
      list          Get the timeline of a particular list.
      search        Query Twitter for matching tweets.`

idk but these look like accessing twitter issues. Does this project still work?