twint 2.1.20
An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool.
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.6.0

# 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:
- 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.

## Requirements
- Python 3.6;
- aiohttp;
- aiodns;
- beautifulsoup4;
- cchardet;
- elasticsearch;
- pysocks;
- pandas (>=0.23.0);
- aiohttp_socks;
- schedule;
- geopy;
- fake-useragent;
- py-googletransx.

## Installing

**Git:**
```bash
git clone https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git
cd twint
pip3 install . -r requirements.txt
```

**Pip:**
```bash
pip3 install twint
```

or

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

**Pipenv**:
```bash
pipenv install -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git#egg=twint
```

## CLI Basic Examples and Combos
A few simple examples to help you understand the basics:

- `twint -u username` - Scrape all the Tweets from *user*'s timeline.
- `twint -u username -s pineapple` - Scrape all Tweets from the *user*'s timeline containing _pineapple_.
- `twint -s pineapple` - Collect every Tweet containing *pineapple* from everyone's Tweets.
- `twint -u username --year 2014` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted **before** 2014.
- `twint -u username --since "2015-12-20 20:30:15"` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20 20:30:15.
- `twint -u username --since 2015-12-20` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20 00:00:00.
- `twint -u username -o file.txt` - Scrape Tweets and save to file.txt.
- `twint -u username -o file.csv --csv` - Scrape Tweets and save as a csv file.
- `twint -u username --email --phone` - Show Tweets that might have phone numbers or email addresses.
- `twint -s "Donald Trump" --verified` - Display Tweets by verified users that Tweeted about Donald Trump.
- `twint -g="48.880048,2.385939,1km" -o file.csv --csv` - Scrape Tweets from a radius of 1km around a place in Paris and export them to a csv file.
- `twint -u username -es localhost:9200` - Output Tweets to Elasticsearch
- `twint -u username -o file.json --json` - Scrape Tweets and save as a json file.
- `twint -u username --database tweets.db` - Save Tweets to a SQLite database.
- `twint -u username --followers` - Scrape a Twitter user's followers.
- `twint -u username --following` - Scrape who a Twitter user follows.
- `twint -u username --favorites` - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited (gathers ~3200 tweet).
- `twint -u username --following --user-full` - Collect full user information a person follows
- `twint -u username --profile-full` - Use a slow, but effective method to gather Tweets from a user's profile (Gathers ~3200 Tweets, Including Retweets).
- `twint -u username --retweets` - Use a quick method to gather the last 900 Tweets (that includes retweets) from a user's profile.
- `twint -u username --resume resume_file.txt` - Resume a search starting from the last saved scroll-id.

More detail about the commands and options are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Commands)

## Module Example

Twint can now be used as a module and supports custom formatting. **More details are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Module)**

```python
import twint

# Configure
c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "now"
c.Search = "fruit"

# Run
twint.run.Search(c)
```
> Output

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

```python
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
- Write to file;
- CSV;
- JSON;
- SQLite;
- Elasticsearch.

## Elasticsearch Setup

Details on setting up Elasticsearch with Twint is located in the [wiki](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Elasticsearch).

## Graph Visualization
![graph](https://i.imgur.com/EEJqB8n.png)

[Graph](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Graph) details are also located in the [wiki](https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Graph).

We are developing a Twint Desktop App.

![4](https://i.imgur.com/DzcfIgL.png)

## 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

```python
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:
- [Google translate has some quotas](https://cloud.google.com/translate/quotas)

## Featured Blog Posts:
- [How to use Twint as an OSINT tool](https://pielco11.ovh/posts/twint-osint/)
- [Basic tutorial made by Null Byte](https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/mine-twitter-for-targeted-information-with-twint-0193853/)
- [Analyzing Tweets with NLP in minutes with Spark, Optimus and Twint](https://towardsdatascience.com/analyzing-tweets-with-nlp-in-minutes-with-spark-optimus-and-twint-a0c96084995f)
- [Loading tweets into Kafka and Neo4j](https://markhneedham.com/blog/2019/05/29/loading-tweets-twint-kafka-neo4j/)

## 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](https://osint.team)