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Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered by simonw on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:06PM (#35549483)
Huh, TIL Twitter uses GraphQL under the hood: https://github.com/trevorhobenshield/twitter-api-client/blob...
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Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered by hobenshield on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:02PM (#35549903)
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
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Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered by halfmatthalfcat on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:59AM (#35553606)
I believe its running on Sangria (Scala's biggest GraphQL lib)
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Re:Show HN: Twitter API Reverse Engineered by dmatech on Sunday April 16, 2023 @12:24PM (#35591428)
A lot of sites use GraphQL under the hood for the official frontend but expose more restrictive REST APIs for third party users. I suppose this is understandable because it's easier to document REST APIs and people generally can't cause quite as much unexpected trouble with them.
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