Tweeper 1.4.3 released, twitter to RSS conversion is back once again

by ao2, December 28, 2020

Tweeper is a web scraper which converts Twitter and other social media websites to RSS.

On December 27th 2020 version 1.4.3 of Tweeper has been released. The tweeper Debian package has also been updated.

For PHP composer users there is also ao2/tweeper on packagist, which means that tweeper can be installed and run with these commands:

$ composer global require ao2/tweeper
$ ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/tweeper

Version 1.4.3 is a maintenance release with a couple of fixes.

Here are the NEWS file entries:

News for v1.4.3:
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  * Fix scraping twitter.com again by impersonating a Google crawler
  * Add check for http response code and return failure for error codes
  * Return failure when instagram.com redirects to login page

Short link: https://ao2.it/143

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by GunnarG (not verified) | Thu, 01/04/2021 - 13:50

I get this when I try to use

I get this when I try to use compose:

Changed current directory to /home/user/.config/composer
Warning from https://repo.packagist.org: You are using an outdated version of Composer. Composer 2 is now available and you should upgrade. See https://getcomposer.org/2
Using version ^1.4 for ao2/tweeper
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Warning from https://repo.packagist.org: You are using an outdated version of Composer. Composer 2 is now available and you should upgrade. See https://getcomposer.org/2
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

Problem 1
- friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer v2.10.4 requires php ^5.6 || >=7.0 <7.3 -> your PHP version (7.4.3) does not satisfy that requirement.
- friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer v2.10.4 requires php ^5.6 || >=7.0 <7.3 -> your PHP version (7.4.3) does not satisfy that requirement.
- friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer v2.10.4 requires php ^5.6 || >=7.0 <7.3 -> your PHP version (7.4.3) does not satisfy that requirement.
- Installation request for friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer (locked at v2.10.4, required as ^2.10) -> satisfiable by friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer[v2.10.4].

by GunnarG (not verified) | Wed, 14/04/2021 - 09:31

Using composer like this

Using composer like this fixes the issue for me.
composer global require --ignore-platform-reqs ao2/tweeper

by Francesco (not verified) | Sat, 25/12/2021 - 23:33

I think Instagram broke

I think Instagram broke tweeper.

 $ ~/media/vcs/tweeper/./tweeper https://instagram.com/instagram
PHP Warning:  Cannot open instagram page: redirected to Login page.
 in /home/f/media/vcs/tweeper/src/Tweeper.php on line 327

by ao2 | Mon, 03/01/2022 - 00:00

The redirect to the login

The redirect to the login page is quite normal these days, Instagram detects and blocks scrapers in a lot of ways. Sometimes this redirect can be temporarily worked around by changing the IP address (e.g. by rebooting your modem).

Besides that, scraping Instagram has been indeed broken in Tweeper itself for some time, this change should fix it: https://git.ao2.it/tweeper.git/commitdiff/75c303bf7c570748a5564de6e266cc40f75b1697

Thanks, Antonio

by Francesco (not verified) | Mon, 03/01/2022 - 00:26

And indeed I git pulled and

And indeed I git pulled and it works! tweeper is Godsent, reclaiming the web from social silos. Thanks again!

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