Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose

Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by Thaxll on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @10:45PM (#19268832)

You can do the same for the Reddit API, change the agent header and then you have unlimited API calls.

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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by ihuman on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:52AM (#19271639)

Just be careful about how much you change it, since you could get banned. You might be able to get away with changing the app ID or version, but even that's risky.

> NEVER lie about your user-agent. This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API

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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by thinkloop on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:10AM (#19269579)

How would that work, I couldn't find much on the web?

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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by Thaxll on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:56AM (#19270998)

Same problem as the mobile app for Twitter, they can't block people that are not logged in the mobile app so they don't rate limit them.

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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by thinkloop on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:57PM (#19277590)

How come they can block people on the web again?

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Re:Reconstructing Twitter's Firehose by dewey on Thursday February 28, 2019 @02:41AM (#19269697)

Probably by doing a mitm attack on the mobile app and using the headers used there.

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