An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool.
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# TWINT - Twitter Intelligence Tool
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>No authentication. No API. No limits.
Formerly known as Tweep, 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**
## Requirements
- Python 3.5/3.6
- `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`
## Basic Examples and Combos.
A few simple examples to help you understand the basics:
- `python3 twint.py -u username` - Scrape all the Tweets from *user*'s timeline.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -s pineapple` - Scrape all Tweets from the *user*'s timeline containing _pineapple_.
- `python3 twint.py -s pineapple` - Collect every Tweet containing *pineapple* from everyone's Tweets.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --year 2014` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted **before** 2014.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --since 2015-12-20` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.txt` - Scrape Tweets and save to file.txt.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.csv --csv` - Scrape Tweets and save as a csv file.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --fruit` - Show Tweets with low-hanging fruit.
- `python3 twint.py -s "Donald Trump" --verified --users` - List verified users that Tweet about Donald Trump.
- `python3 twint.py -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.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -es localhost:9200` - Output Tweets to Elasticsearch
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.json --json` - Scrape Tweets and save as a json file.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --database tweets.db` - Save Tweets to a SQLite database.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --followers` - Scrape a Twitter user's followers.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --following` - Scrape who a Twitter user follows.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --favorites` - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited.
More detail about the commands and options are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Commands)
## Using Twint as a Module
Twint can now be used as a module and supports custom formatting. More details are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Module)
#### Install
- `sudo pip3 install twint`
#### Example
```python
import twint
# Configure
c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "now"
c.Search = "pineapple"
c.Format = "Tweet id: {id} | Tweet: {tweet}"
# Run
twint.Search(c)
```
## Example String
`955511208597184512 2018-01-22 18:43:19 GMT <now> pineapples are the best fruit`
## 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/haccer/twint/wiki/Elasticsearch).
### Graph Visualization
![graph](https://i.imgur.com/EEJqB8n.png)
[Graph](https://github.com/haccer/twint/tree/master/graph) details are also located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Graph).
## Thanks
Thanks to [@hpiedcoq](https://github.com/hpiedcoq) & [@pielco11](https://github.com/pielco11) for contributing several features!
## Contact
Shout me out on Twitter: [@now](https://twitter.com/now)
If you have problems or have suggestions don't hesitate to open an issue or ask about it directly.
[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/twint.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/twint/) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/haccer/twint.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/haccer/twint/) [![Python 3.5|3.6](https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.5%2F3.6-blue.svg)](https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/) [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/haccer/tweep.svg)](https://github.com/haccer/tweep/blob/master/LICENSE)
>No authentication. No API. No limits.
Formerly known as Tweep, 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**
## Requirements
- Python 3.5/3.6
- `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`
## Basic Examples and Combos.
A few simple examples to help you understand the basics:
- `python3 twint.py -u username` - Scrape all the Tweets from *user*'s timeline.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -s pineapple` - Scrape all Tweets from the *user*'s timeline containing _pineapple_.
- `python3 twint.py -s pineapple` - Collect every Tweet containing *pineapple* from everyone's Tweets.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --year 2014` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted **before** 2014.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --since 2015-12-20` - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.txt` - Scrape Tweets and save to file.txt.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.csv --csv` - Scrape Tweets and save as a csv file.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --fruit` - Show Tweets with low-hanging fruit.
- `python3 twint.py -s "Donald Trump" --verified --users` - List verified users that Tweet about Donald Trump.
- `python3 twint.py -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.
- `python3 twint.py -u username -es localhost:9200` - Output Tweets to Elasticsearch
- `python3 twint.py -u username -o file.json --json` - Scrape Tweets and save as a json file.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --database tweets.db` - Save Tweets to a SQLite database.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --followers` - Scrape a Twitter user's followers.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --following` - Scrape who a Twitter user follows.
- `python3 twint.py -u username --favorites` - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited.
More detail about the commands and options are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Commands)
## Using Twint as a Module
Twint can now be used as a module and supports custom formatting. More details are located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Module)
#### Install
- `sudo pip3 install twint`
#### Example
```python
import twint
# Configure
c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "now"
c.Search = "pineapple"
c.Format = "Tweet id: {id} | Tweet: {tweet}"
# Run
twint.Search(c)
```
## Example String
`955511208597184512 2018-01-22 18:43:19 GMT <now> pineapples are the best fruit`
## 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/haccer/twint/wiki/Elasticsearch).
### Graph Visualization
![graph](https://i.imgur.com/EEJqB8n.png)
[Graph](https://github.com/haccer/twint/tree/master/graph) details are also located in the [wiki](https://github.com/haccer/twint/wiki/Graph).
## Thanks
Thanks to [@hpiedcoq](https://github.com/hpiedcoq) & [@pielco11](https://github.com/pielco11) for contributing several features!
## Contact
Shout me out on Twitter: [@now](https://twitter.com/now)
If you have problems or have suggestions don't hesitate to open an issue or ask about it directly.
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