looks like X/twitter(?) broke something again · Issue #983 · zedeus/nitter
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Goodbye twitter I guess. There’s no longer any way to see twitter things people send you without an account

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    it still could be made working with using real logins for scraping which can be a bit illegal but if you do it on your personal instance it would be more than enough. I’m not sure, maybe nitter already supports this instead of guest tokens?

    • xthexderEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      There’s nothing illegal about breaking Twitter terms of service. You might get banned, but that’s it.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        That would be in it in ideal world but Twitter can sue you for damages as you explicitly agree with ToS in most countries especially US. There’s enough precedence when it comes to “login” scraping in the US that you’d most likely lose (though probably not a massive payout)

        Twitter is unlikely to bother with small non-commercial scrapers but I wouldn’t risk attaching any tracable info even for small personal projects.

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Yes I believe it could, though we’ll see if the devs are willing to keep supporting it