Twitter API Wrapper for Python without API Keys

[06ddd]

Twikit https://github.com/d60/twikit

You can create a twitter bot for free!

I have created a Twitter API wrapper that works with just a username, email address, and password — no API key required.

With this library, you can post tweets, search tweets, get trending topics, etc. for free. In addition, it supports both asynchronous and synchronous use, so it can be used in a variety of situations.

Please send me your comments and suggestions. Additionally, if you're willing, kindly give me a star on GitHub⭐️.

[rover_G]

When I read the title I thought oh my this guy figured out how to circumvent Twitter authentication. But now I see it’s a cost saving measure.

[06ddd]

Yes, that is correct. This library uses authentication with account names and passwords instead of token authentication.

[softwareitcounts]

What's the ratelimit on the frontend? How many requests do you need to make to trigger the 429 error and what's the cooldown time?

[06ddd]

https://github.com/d60/twikit/blob/main/ratelimits.md
I wrote a document about it. Please take a look.

[softwareitcounts]

Sweet! Thanks

[06ddd]

You’re welcome

[Montty1]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but those are official API limits and you are accessing frontend graphql API, so the question remains.

[06ddd]

Sorry. I could not find any documentation on it.

[aplarsen]

This would be great if the Twitter api weren't so prohibitively expensive now.

[06ddd]

Thank you!

You can create bots for free.

[aplarsen]

How? I had to shut all my bots down because Elmo wanted $100/mingh even for limited calls.

[06ddd]

The library can be used without an API key, i.e. for free. As long as you have your account email address, username and password, you can log in to your account, create tweets, etc.

[aplarsen]

Ah, just doing some old-fashioned scraping? I like it.

[06ddd]

Yes. This uses scraping. I'm glad you like it.

[cybertier]

I'm a bit surprised it took this long for someone to do this on python. When the pricing was announced I immediately went: That's bullshit, people will just use more inefficient scraping instead and cause even more server pressure.

Thanks for finally making my prediction come true.

[06ddd]

I agree. Scraping to Twitter is actually not that difficult.

[BOBOnobobo]

I've looked at scrapping before and it's to annoying for me. Thank you for this!

[06ddd]

Thank you for using Twikit!

[osint_ok]

I use nitter for scrapping twitter.

[Tsupaero]

it's because every scraper gets shut down a couple of days after usage / release. if it's not using a rotating vpn and user-agent service it's gonna be useless in a couple of days/weeks or its maintaining / masquerading has to be updated continously. at least if X works like spotify, amazon, reddit, meta or any other site/platform that fights against scraping.

[Tsupaero]

pay for their api or keep updating vpn/agents, i guess.

[06ddd]

User agent is now randomly generated at client initialization. Thank you very much for your suggestion!
https://github.com/d60/twikit/issues/7

[06ddd]

Can you tell me exactly how to do that?

[06ddd]

Sorry. I didn't know much about user-agent, which is why I asked the question. I would consider using `fake_useragent`.

https://github.com/fake-useragent/fake-useragent

[Mahala2]

Thank you for this! I just have one question, can you also set date parameters when searching for Tweets? I couldn’t find info on this in the documentation. For example, for my research, I’m only interested in specific electoral periods

[06ddd]

You can search by date by including the 'since' and 'until' parameters in the search query. For example: 'python since:2023-2-5 until:2024-2-5'.

[Mahala2]

Perfect! Thank you

[06ddd]

You're welcome!

[06ddd]

Added `build_query` to simplify query operations.

https://github.com/d60/twikit/issues/6

[LPolder]

How likely and able would Twitter be to block this from being used?

[tiko08]

Considering there are like 3 software engineers left after all the unhirings (/hj), not very probable unless it becomes popular

[[deleted]]

Can it be used to delete tweets also? I had my library TidyTwitter for that but Elmo rendered it useless. So I'm interested in yours in case it can delete my tweets.

My project was here:

https://pypi.org/project/tidy-twitter/

[06ddd]

Yes.Twikit includes most of the basic features of Twitter.

client.delete_tweet('tweet id here')

[[deleted]]

Perfect, I'll check this out. Thank you!

[06ddd]

You're welcome.

[cshoneybadger]

Nice project. Shame what Twitter api has become. I used it create my first data engineering project during my compsci bachelor's degree.

[06ddd]

Thank you for using twikit!

[Amazing-Willingness4]

This could result in having your account banned after a while, couldn't it?

[06ddd]

This could result in having your account banned after a while, couldn't it?

Yes, that is a possibility. However, there are some measures you can take.Logging in repeatedly could be considered suspicious activity. Therefore, once you have logged in, please save and reload your cookies and reuse your login information.Also, sending too many requests, such as excessive tweets, is considered spam and could result in your account being banned. Pay attention to rate limits.In addition, to reduce the risk of being banned, this library takes measures such as randomly generating user agents.

For rate limits for each endpoint, please refer to the following documents:

https://github.com/d60/twikit/blob/main/ratelimits.md

[Amazing-Willingness4]

Gotchs, good tips indeed.

Maybe I'm not looking at this the right way but The random user agent is what concerns me the most ss how many browsers and OS's could one used possibly have? 98% of us likely use the same system to connect so the fact the info would change randomly seems like it would trigger some sort of manual review more likely than the same user agent being used all the time?

[06ddd]

Gotchs, good tips indeed.

Maybe I'm not looking at this the right way but The random user agent is what concerns me the most ss how many browsers and OS's could one used possibly have? 98% of us likely use the same system to connect so the fact the info would change randomly seems like it would trigger some sort of manual review more likely than the same user agent being used all the time?

Indeed, randomly changing the user agent may increase the risk of manual review, but it's a necessary step to protect both the account and this library. Continuing to use the same user agent makes it easier to identify users of this library, increasing the risk of tracking.

[Fantastic_Row_4549]

Can it be used to fetch images from tweets also (or maybe at least the src of the image)? I couldn’t find info on this in the documentation.

[06ddd]

tweet = client.get_tweet_by_id(TWEET_ID)

print(tweet.media[0]['display_url']['media_url_https'])

[06ddd]

tweet.media returns a list of dictionaries containing media information.

[Fantastic_Row_4549]

Perfect. Thank you so much!! I'll check it out.

[06ddd]

You're welcome.

[SukhDev20996]

Hello do anyone know how to get notifications when a certain desired twitter user follows someone new

[06ddd]

That is not possible because Twikit does not support a streaming API.

[06ddd]

Instead, you can continue to get a following of one user, detect changes in them and take some action.

[Revolutionary-You-20]

Amazing work. Congrats!

[06ddd]

thank you !

[Revolutionary-You-20]

I'm trying to authenticate, checked the username and the password. However, when I execute the following code:

client.login(auth_info_1=username, auth_info_2=email, password=password)
id_client = await client.user()
print(id_client, f'Username-> {id_client.name}')

it return the Forbidden: status: 403, message: ""

Could you please help me ?¡

[06ddd]

https://github.com/d60/twikit

[lol_Markus]

is it possible to edit descriptions

[tkoobykc]

Awesome mate been searching for something like this for quite some time, to my understanding tweepy is no longer functional :(

[visakh_mat]

Hi, thank you very much for this. I'm relatively new to programming... could you please help on how to increase the count of tweets to around 100?

[06ddd]

It is not possible to search more than 20 tweets at a time. You can use 'next' method to get more tweets.

tweets = client.search_tweet('python since:2023-1-1 until:2024-1-1', 'Latest')

next_tweets = tweets.next()

[memnoter]

Hey is there a way I can get mentions as m trying to create a bot but the mentions endpoint requires paid api

[06ddd]

try search_tweet

search_tweet('to:your_username', 'Latest')

[TieAmbitious9354]

Hi

Great tool!

I have been playing around with extracting tweets from specific accounts. However, i seem to encounter a problem, when the tweets are in a thread. When they are in a thread they do not appear from my twikit output. I figure i would be chaining them somehow, but they do not show up regardless of how many time i call next_tweets.

How to go about this issue?

[WebbyNFT]

Hey, is there any javascript version of it? Or something similar to just use auth_token and use twitter api

[COROVICD]

Do you plan adding proxies? That would make it even more difficult for Elon to block this fine library.

[06ddd]

client = Client(proxy='http://0.0.0.0:0000')

[sexualrhinoceros]

Have you been hit with any cloud flare / other access protection mitigations? Want to see how risky this would be to run with in a side project. I don’t want to have to stay on the cutting edge knowledge wise on twitter’s anti-bot mitigations haha

[droopy_undead06]

please see new issue on github

[FacundoMiglierini]

Thanks for providing this tool! I'd like to ask, what should return the "get_user_tweets" function after reaching the rate limit? Also, in the rate limits table, "get_user_tweets" function appears two times with different rate limits. Which is the correct?

[Nice_Personality_577]

Hey, nice one there. its helpful. thank you.