JustAnotherArchivist / JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape

twitterscraper - collect tweets without specifying word

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Description

Is it possible to use TwitterSearchScraper to collect a number of tweets just setting parameters like tweet.lang or tweet.place.country, without specifying a word as an argument?

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Research direction

Start at the TwitterSearchScraper entry point named in the issue and inspect how its search argument and language or country filters are handled. The payload names no files or tests; done should establish whether filter-only collection is supported and verify the resulting behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
data
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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