A commandline tool for querying twitter.
First you will have to create a configuration file in your HOME directory called .twitterrc, with the following:
[authentication]
auth=----40-char-authtoken------
You can get this authtoken by several means, most easily by looking at the 'site-storage' with the browser's debug-console, and find the auth_token cookie.
it should be a 40 character hex string ( consisting of digits 0-9 and letters a-f )
Then use this tool for example:
python3 tw.py --tweets elonmusk
This will give:
None elonmusk / Elon Musk / 44196397
insn TimelineClearCache
insn TimelineAddEntries
1646361204401799168 Thu Apr 13 03:54:33 +0000 2023 RT @TexasLindsay_: @elonmusk @zerohedge PBS begging on twitter over the years to have people support their federal funding. https://t.co/WQ…
1646225066345234437 Wed Apr 12 18:53:35 +0000 2023 https://t.co/krmcbhutr0
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtiQ-MIagAAnqfm.jpg
1646303780189900800 Thu Apr 13 00:06:22 +0000 2023 NPR literally says Federal funding is *essential* on their website right now at https://t.co/QA8TUZxmNO
...
The complete usage info:
usage: tw.py [-h] [--followers] [--following] [--tweets] [--uidinfo] [--userinfo] [--tweetinfo] [--media] [--debug]
[--config CONFIG] [--authtoken AUTHTOKEN]
[ARGS ...]
twitter tool
positional arguments:
ARGS which items to list
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--followers list followers for the specified user
--following list following for the specified user
--tweets list tweets for the specified user
--uidinfo print info by userid
--userinfo print info by screenname
--tweetinfo print info for a tweetid
--media list media for the specified user
--debug debug http requests
--config CONFIG specify configuration file.
--authtoken AUTHTOKEN
- add support for search
- implement user authentication, so you don't have to copy the auth cookie.
Willem Hengeveld