TwitterScraper 🐦

Search & extract tweets without API keys. Search 1B+ tweets, find trending topics, monitor users, export to CSV. No Twitter Developer account needed.

Features

• 🔍 Search tweets by keyword — no API key required
• 🔥 Trending topics — see what's hot right now
• 👤 User timeline — get recent tweets from any user
• 📊 CSV export — save results for analysis
• 🎯 Hack trends mode — one command to find cybersecurity/hacking trends
• 🔐 Cookie auth optional — better rate limits with your session cookies

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ridhinva/TwitterScraper.git
cd TwitterScraper
pip install requests

Usage

Search tweets

python3 twitterscraper.py search "CVE-2026-9082"
python3 twitterscraper.py search "Drupal SQL injection" --count 50

Find trending topics

python3 twitterscraper.py trending

Get user's recent tweets

python3 twitterscraper.py user CISACyber
python3 twitterscraper.py user @elonmusk --count 10

One-command hacking trend finder

python3 twitterscraper.py hack-trends

Export to CSV

python3 twitterscraper.py search "bugbounty tips" --csv results.csv

Cookie Auth (for better results)

Place ~/.twitter_cookies.json with your browser cookies for authenticated access:

[
  {"name":"auth_token","value":"...","domain":".x.com","path":"/"},
  {"name":"ct0","value":"...","domain":".x.com","path":"/"},
  {"name":"twid","value":"...","domain":".x.com","path":"/"}
]

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Use Cases

• Bug bounty hunters — track trending CVEs and exploit discussions
• Researchers — collect dataset of tweets for analysis
• Threat intel — monitor CISA KEV additions, 0day chatter
• Social listening — track brand mentions, sentiment analysis

How It Works

Uses Twitter's public guest API endpoint (no OAuth needed) with a Bearer token extracted from the web client. Falls back to web scraping when API limits are hit.

Author

@c_y_p_h3r — Bug bounty hunter & security researcher

Disclaimer

For educational and research purposes only. Respect Twitter's Terms of Service.