How to scrape Twitter data without an API

Welcome back! If you follow my articles you know I love scraping data, but you don’t care about my background, so let’s talk about scraping some Twitter data! In this tutorial we will be using Python, we’ll also be using Twitter’s website to get the data, this means no API, limits or credentials needed to get in the way of us getting valuable data!

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Basic introduction you could probably skip that I copied from my other article

First things first, we will need to have Python installed, read my article here to make sure you have Python and some IDE installed. Next, I wrote an article on using Selenium in Python, Selenium is a web scraping package that allows us to mimic a web browser using Python, it might be best to read that article for more of…