twitter-webscraper

A Twitter web scraper built with TypeScript and Puppeteer

Installation

To use this package in your project, run:

npm i twitter-webscraper

Features

• Log in to your Twitter account
• Scrape tweets
• Scrape user's information
• Scrape user's followers
• Scrape user's following

To Implement

• Search and Scrape top and latest tweets
• Scrape logged in user's timeline
• Scrape user's tweets

Usage

const { Scraper } = require('twitter-webscraper');
const scraper = new Scraper();

(async () => {
    // It will initialize the headless browser 
    await scraper.initializeBrowser();
    // It's not necessary to log in, but if you want to have access to
    // all of the features, then you need to log in.  
    await scraper.login('username or email', 'password');
    const userInfo = await scraper.getUserInfo('username');
    console.log(userInfo);
    // It will close the headless browser. 
    // You have to write this at the end of your code. 
    scraper.browser.close();
})();

Methods

Method	Description
initializeBrowser()	It will initialize the headless browser
login(username_or_email: string, password: string)	Log in to your Twitter account
getUserInfo(username: string)	Scrape information of the given user
getFollwers(username: string)	Scrape followers of the given user
getFollwing(username: string)	Scrape following of the given user
getTweet(link: string)	Scrape the given tweet
browser.close()	It will close the headless browser

Contributing

If you encounter a bug or you want to add new features, feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.

1. Fork the repo on GitHub
2. Clone the project to your own machine
3. Commit changes to your own branch
4. Push your work back up to your fork
5. Submit a Pull request