Part of a PR reporting tool we’ve built uses screenshots of online media. Up until recently we’ve been able to screen capture tweets within the Twitter website. However we now get the message “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please wait a few moments then try again” This happens regards of how long its been since the last request.
Is there a way to avoid this? We want the tweets in the context of the Twitter website as proof that this coverage happened on public social media.
The website is not an app platform and has no API so there’s nothing we can do here to assist with what you’re trying to do. Automating actions on the website is liable to lead to rate limiting or having your IP address blocked as this is technically scraping the site which is against the terms of service.
One alternative approach you could consider would be to use our web widgets via publish.twitter.com, or using the official oEmbed API to get the embeddable Tweet source.
I used this thread as there was no other suitable on to post my query. I appreciate any help you can offer, or direct me to another thread that may be able to help.
I don’t consider this scraping as we only taking a screenshot in time, of a tweet for purpose of reporting that a tweet happened and replies to it. Much like the Wayback machine or Google would.
The example is that a Public Relations person has organised with a blogger to review a product. Our product allows them to say “This is the tweet where they mention our client” and we then pull an image of that tweet on the twitter website to report that it happened in the final PDF to their client.
Your solution of using publish.twitter.com doesn’t display the replies, or (as far as i can see) the conversation.
Here is an example tweet https://twitter.com/FARtheGame/status/1043177093503373312 and it’s corresponding embed Twitter Publish
Again, there’s no support for this as a developer platform and this forum exists to support the API, so if you’re unable to use the official iprogramming interfaces we provide, we are unable to help you further here.
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