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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by armitron on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:49AM (#22855367)
People who write robust, performant, maintainable systems that don’t collapse under their own weight are talented engineers.

Most scrapers including this one lack these characteristics.

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Re:Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python by scared2 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @03:42PM (#22882124)
I totally agree, writing scrapers doesn't necessarily make one a talented engineer. You may often find it easier to write a scrapers than going through the API documentation or series of authentication procedures.
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