GoGettr is an API client for GETTR, a "non-bias [sic] social network." GoGettr is built and maintained by the Stanford Internet Observatory.
This tool does not currently require any authentication with GETTR; it gathers all its data through publicly accessible endpoints.
Currently, this tool can:
- Pull posts made on the platform
- Pull comments made on the platform
- Pull all top "trending" hashtags
- Pull all suggested users
- Pull all "trending" posts (i.e., the posts on the home page)
- Pull all posts and/or comments of a user on the platform
- Pull all a user's followers
- Pull all users a particular user follows
- Pull all comments on a particular post
- Pull profile information about particular users
GoGettr is designed for academic research, open source intelligence gathering, and data archival. It pulls all of the data from the publicly accessible API.
GoGettr is available on PyPI. To install it, simply run pip install gogettr. Provided your pip is setup correctly, this will make gogettr available both as a command and as a Python package. Note that GoGettr requires Python 3.8 or higher.
Pull all posts (starting at id 1, capped at 1m)
gogettr all --max 1000000Pull all comments
gogettr all --type comments --max 1000000Pull all posts (starting at a particular ID and moving backward through IDs)
gogettr all --rev --last pay8dPull all posts from a user
gogettr user USERNAME --type postsPull all comments from a user
gogettr user USERNAME --type commentsPull all likes from a user
gogettr user USERNAME --type likesPull a user's information
gogettr user-info USERNAMEUsage: gogettr [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
GoGettr is an unauthenticated API client for GETTR.
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
all Pull all posts (or comments) sequentially.
comments Pull comments on a specific post.
hashtags Pull the suggested hashtags (the top suggestions are...
live Pull livestream posts.
registered Check if a username is registered.
search Search posts for the given query.
suggested Pull the suggested users (users displayed on the home...
trends Pull all the trends (posts displayed on the home page).
user Pull the posts, likes, or comments made by a user.
user-followers Pull all a user's followers.
user-following Pull all users a given user follows.
user-info Pull given user's information.
Usage: gogettr all [OPTIONS]
Pull all posts (or comments) sequentially.
Note that if iterating chronologically and both max and last are unset, then
this command will run forever (as it will iterate through all post IDs to
infinity). To prevent this, either specify a max, last post, or iterate
reverse chronologically.
Posts will be pulled in parallel according to the desired number of workers.
Out of respect for GETTR's servers, avoid setting the number of workers to
values over 50.
Options:
--first TEXT the ID of the first post to pull
--last TEXT the ID of the last post to pull
--max INTEGER the maximum number of posts to pull
--rev increment reverse chronologically (i.e., from last
to first)
--type [posts|comments]
--workers INTEGER the number of threads to run in parallel
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr comments [OPTIONS] POST_ID
Pull comments on a specific post.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of comments to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr hashtags [OPTIONS]
Pull the suggested hashtags (the top suggestions are displayed on the front
page).
Note that while the first five or so hashtags have expanded information
associated with them, later results do not.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of hashtags to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr registered [OPTIONS] USERNAME
Check if a username is registered.
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr search [OPTIONS] QUERY
Search posts for the given query.
This is equivalent to putting the query in the GETTR search box and
archiving all the posts that result.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of posts to pull
--help Show this message and exit
Usage: gogettr suggested [OPTIONS]
Pull the suggested users (users displayed on the home page).
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of users to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr trends [OPTIONS]
Pull all the trends (posts displayed on the home page).
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of posts to pull
--until TEXT the ID of the earliest post to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr user [OPTIONS] USERNAME
Pull the posts, likes, or comments made by a user.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of activities to pull
--until TEXT the ID of the earliest activity to pull for
the user
--type [posts|comments|likes]
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr user-followers [OPTIONS] USERNAME
Pull all a user's followers.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of users to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr user-following [OPTIONS] USERNAME
Pull all users a given user follows.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of users to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr user-info [OPTIONS] USERNAME
Pull given user's information.
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Usage: gogettr live [OPTIONS]
Pull livestream posts.
Options:
--max INTEGER the maximum number of livestream entries to pull
--help Show this message and exit.
You can use GoGettr as a Python module. For example, here's how you would pull all a user's posts:
from gogettr import PublicClient
client = PublicClient()
posts = client.user_activity(username="support", type="posts")For more examples of using GoGettr as a module, check out the tests directory. Note that the API surface can't be considered quite stable yet. In the case that Gettr changes their API, GoGettr's API may change to match (though with as few public-facing API changes as possible, however).
GoGettr groups related API functionality into the same capabilities; for example, pulling users' comments, posts, and likes is all done by the same function (inside user_activity.py), and pulling followers and following is done by the same function (inside user_relationships.py). That means there isn't perfect correspondence between the CLI surface and the API surface.
To run gogettr in a development environment, you'll need Poetry. Install the dependencies by running poetry install, and then you're all set to work on gogettr locally.
To run the tests, run poetry run pytest.
To access the CLI, run poetry run gogettr.
To package and release a new version on PyPI, simply create a new release tag on GitHub.
Contributions are encouraged! For small bug fixes and minor improvements, feel free to just open a PR. For larger changes, please open an issue first so that other contributors can discuss your plan, avoid duplicated work, and ensure it aligns with the goals of the project. Be sure to also follow the code of conduct. Thanks!
When run in CLI mode, GoGettr will log extensive debug information to gogettr.log (in the working directory). This log will include every single request GoGettr makes, and every single response GoGettr receives. Because it's possible that GoGettr accidentally loses some information when parsing API responses, consider keeping this file around just in case.
Support for the following capabilities is planned:
- ...nothing right now! (Got an idea? Submit an issue/PR!)