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Twitter API Reverse Engineered

Shown by hobenshield on Apr 12, 2023. Click the card to turn it over.

183points

36comments

#314of 3,109 in 2023

Top 11%of 2023 by points

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0 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Idea: 0 for, 1 against

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Heavy use may get accounts banned
From 1 comment
- Pretty sure overusing this will get your account banned if not now eventually. If you want to use it then you should seriously limit the usage. The rate limits are there to…
  Dave3of5 on HN
Twitter will likely increase bot detection
From 1 comment
- This was inevitably going to get more popular after the new API pricing was announced. Unfortunately this also means they're going to start being more aggressive on bot…
  TobyTheDog123 on HN

Support for quote tweets
From 1 comment
- Did you ever figure out how to get quotes tweets? The web app calls https://twitter.com/i/api/2/search/adaptive.json, but the header/params schema that works for all the other…
  croatiancajun on HN

Is this a replacement for paying for the Twitter API?
From 1 comment
- Is this replacement for paying to Twitter new policy subscription?
  TheObviousOne on HN
Is the hard-coded bearer token from the session or consistent across users?
From 1 comment
- I noticed it uses fixed Auth header, is it from your session or consistent across session/user?
  banditelol on HN

Nitter
From 1 comment
- Nothing new. Nitter for example has been using these endpoints for a while.
  dawnerd on HN
twint
From 1 comment
- Related but archived (scraper): https://github.com/twintproject/twint
  construct0 on HN