How to Extract Data from Twitter Without Coding

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In this web scraping tutorial, I’ll show you how to scrape Twitter data in 5 minutes without using Twitter API, Tweepy, Python, or writing a single line of code.

As Octoparse simulates human interaction with a webpage, it allows you to pull all the information you see on any website, such as Twitter. For example, you can easily extract Tweets of a handler, tweets containing certain hashtags, or posted within a specific time frame, etc.

All you need to do is to grab the URL of your target webpage and paste it into Octoparse built-in browser. Within a few point-and-clicks, you will be able to create a crawler from scratch by yourself. When the extraction is completed, you can export the data into Excel sheets, CSV, HTML, SQL, or you can stream it into your database in real-time via Octoparse APIs.

Step 1: Input the URL and build a pagination 1:24
Twitter applies “Infinite scrolling” technique, which means that you need to first scroll down the page to let Twitter load a few more tweets, and then extract the data shown on the screen.

Step 2: Build a loop item to extract the data 2:28
Make sure you go into the action setting of the “extract data” step. Click on the handler, and click “extract the text of the selected element”. Repeat this action to get all the data fields you want.

Step 3: Modify the pagination setting and execute the crawler 4:03
As we want Twitter to load the content fully before the bot extracts it, let’s set up the AJAX time out as 5 seconds, to give Twitter 5 seconds to load after each scroll.

Then, set up both the scroll repeats and the wait time as 2 to make sure that Twitter loads the content successfully. Now, for each scroll, Octoparse will scroll down for 2 screens, and each screen will take 2 seconds.

Head back to the loop item setting to edit the loop time to 20. This means that the bot will repeat the scrolling for 20 times.

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[aaronaaron]

It did work! However, I also manually cross-checked the scraped tweets with the tweets under the same account. Many tweets were not scraped and were ignored by the app.

[webscrapingwithandy]

Data columns from the resulting CSV are the following ones:
HANDLER, PUBLISH TIME, RPLIES, RETWEETS, LIKES, TEXT

[chenjing]

Can the software extract the tweet's comment text and it related like count?

[ayoooooo]

Hi when i do this how come it only scrapes 52 tweets, is there a way it can scrape all tweets available for the page that i'm scraping?

[mimification]

.Thanks a lot ..but if i want to extract only data regarding certain issue in a certain date how i can zoom that ?

[ailynbetinol]

HI I want to scrape rewteets on a certain tweets, can I do that?

[goutamborthakur]

Very helpful video! I got it for Twitter! Can you tell me how to create a crawler in Octoparse for Instagram data extraction instead of the standard template?

[akshaypawale]

Will the requests get blocked by twitter after some amounts of tweets scraped? because I want to scrape tweets in amounts of 15-20 Million

[dailymeow]

Can i get a keyword tweets in a certain location only ?

[PONR]

I follow step by step and the preview looks as it should but when I run the task no data is collected, even though I can see it scrolling and so. What happened?

[j.valetteuebs]

At 4:48 you say to go back to the loop item and adjust the exit loop repeat to 20, but you adjust the exit loop repeat on the pagination block. Is this correct? or did you mean to adjust the loop Item exit count? I get no results just like Augustina. Seems promising but something is not working :(

[tatianapadilla]

Did not work for me; each time there was zero data scrapped.

[emrahpeksoy]

is this still working after Twitter's limitations for scraping?

[JunaidInHenan]

Tweet attributes: Create time, Tweet ID, Tweet text, Retweet, Retweet count,
User attributes: User screen name, Location, Verified, followers, following
These are main attributes i want to extract from each tweet, can i do this using this tool ? If yes, then i would more than ready to subscribe your scrapping tool.
Thanks