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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by dewey on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:20AM (#22855176)
> But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.

Why would you want to scrape your own data if you an already request all your data and get a whole archive? https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...

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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by simonw on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:27AM (#22855226)
Because then you have to trigger and download a GB+ file every time you want to programmatically access your latest bookmarks.
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