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Scraping Tweets from a user
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const puppeteer = require('puppeteer'); | |
const {writeFile} = require('jsonfile'); | |
const TWITTER_USER = process.argv[2] || "congosto"; | |
const TWEETS_TO_FETCH = process.argv[3] || 100; | |
function extractItems() { | |
return [...document.querySelectorAll('.tweet')] | |
.map(el => ({ | |
metadata : {...el.dataset}, | |
text : el.querySelector('.js-tweet-text-container').textContent.trim() | |
})); | |
} | |
async function scrapeInfiniteScrollItems( | |
page, | |
extractItems, | |
itemTargetCount, | |
scrollDelay = Math.random() * (5000 - 1500) + 1500, | |
) { | |
var items = []; | |
try { | |
let previousHeight; | |
while (items.length < itemTargetCount) { | |
items = await page.evaluate(extractItems); | |
console.log(items.pop().text); | |
previousHeight = await page.evaluate('document.body.scrollHeight'); | |
await page.evaluate('window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight)'); | |
await page.waitForFunction(`document.body.scrollHeight > ${previousHeight}`); | |
await page.waitFor(scrollDelay); | |
} | |
} catch(e) { } | |
return items; | |
} | |
(async () => { | |
// Set up browser and page. | |
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ | |
headless: true, | |
args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'], | |
}); | |
const page = await browser.newPage(); | |
page.setViewport({ width: 1280, height: 926 }); | |
// Navigate to the demo page. | |
await page.goto(`https://twitter.com/search?q=%40${TWITTER_USER}%20include%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query`); | |
// Scroll and extract items from the page. | |
const items = await scrapeInfiniteScrollItems(page, extractItems, TWEETS_TO_FETCH); | |
// Save extracted items to a file. | |
writeFile('./items.json', items); | |
// Close the browser. | |
await browser.close(); | |
})(); |
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I've just put it in a repo :-)
twitter_scrap
Have fun!