"Unable to find guest token" exception on Twitter scrapes from Google Collab

[topliftarm]

when search for tweets i give this error :
ScraperException: Unable to find guest token

in this line ---> for i in tweets.get_items():

[gxwyz]

for tweet in snscrape.modules.twitter.TwitterUserScraper(username='twitter').get_items(): if tweet.content: print(tweet.content)

[JustAnotherArchivist]

@topliftarm Are you using AWS (or something that runs on AWS like Heroku)?

[topliftarm]

@topliftarm Are you using AWS (or something that runs on AWS like Heroku)?

u right! i used colab.....

[JustAnotherArchivist]

Sounds like Twitter is blocking Google Colab. @Hamma111 said the same thing in #79 recently.
If true, there's nothing snscrape or I can do about that. You will have to run snscrape somewhere else.

[JustAnotherArchivist]

@arranjdavis, does snscrape still work for you on Google Collab?

[arranjdavis]

@arranjdavis, does snscrape still work for you on Google Collab?

Yeah, it is working for me, but it's a roundabout way of getting it to work.

First, I needed to get Python 3.8 on the Colab. I do this by installing Anaconda (with Python 3.8) onto the Colab instance, and then launching a Jupyter Notebook via ngrok.

Then I run snsrape from the Jupyter Notebook.

It is working as of now, and you can find the scripts I am using on my GitHub.

[JustAnotherArchivist]

Thank you! I have no idea what's wrong then. In any case, it does not appear like a bug in snscrape or something I can change, so I'm closing this issue.

[tsangvin]

I have also encountered this issue, running snscrape on Jupyter. However, I am still grasping how often does it occur at the moment.