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For those not aware nitter is an opensource twitter frontend which has no ads or javascript.

Now it also bypasses the rate limits and other restrictions.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now it also bypasses the rate limits and other restrictions.

Man, that's another win for the free and libre clones!

No account requirement and it works way faster and more cleanly than official Twitter too, for me.

[–] nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Let's hope they don't throw a fit like Google is doing.

[–] communication@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amazing! I can't wait to read about how they solved this. The devs were coming up with some very creative solutions the last I looked.

Great work to all the contributors!

[–] harry_h0udini911@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just phenomenal work; how could they even scrape data? When Musk restricts the API.

[–] l3mming@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't need API access to scrape data. That's the whole point of scraping - you're indistinguishable from regular traffic. Nitter could even impersonate a Google search crawler if they want.

[–] nullishcat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I could be wrong but when looking at the changed code, it still uses a token, specifically on this line. It's possibly using user routes instead of the actual paid API, but it's hard to tell without knowing twitter's API in depth. Also it's not possible to get everything just by web scraping, especially after they locked everything behind logins. AFAIK the most you can do is impersonate search crawling and get singular tweets or profile bios.