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Twitter Scrape Account Stats

A tool for scraping public data from Twitter, without needing to get permission from Twitter. It scrapes the following fields:

description
followers
following
isVerified
name
posts
userId
username

See lib/response.schema.json for further details.

Example

CLI

The CLI operates entirely over STDOUT, and will output the account stats as JSON.

$ twitter-scrape-account-stats -u slang800
{"description":"","followers":97,"following":102,"isVerified":false,"name":"Sean Lang","userId":"1343446141","username":"slang800","posts":65}

JavaScript Module

The following example is in CoffeeScript.

{getAccountStats} = require 'twitter-scrape-account-stats'

getAccountStats(username: 'slang800').then((account) ->
  console.log "#{account.username} has #{account.followers} followers."
)

The following example is the same as the last one, but in JavaScript.

var getAccountStats = require('twitter-scrape-account-stats').getAccountStats;

getAccountStats({username: 'slang800'}).then(function(account) {
  console.log(account.username + " has " + account.followers + " followers.");
});

Why?

Twitter doesn't provide an open, structured, and machine readable API, so, we're forced to scrape their user-facing site.

Caveats

This is probably against the Twitter TOS, so don't use it if that sort of thing worries you.
Whenever Twitter updates certain parts of their front-end this scraper will need to be updated to support the new API.
You can't scrape protected accounts (cause it's not public duh).