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		armitron on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python People who write robust, performant, maintainable systems that don’t collapse under their own weight are talented engineers. Most scrapers including this one lack these characteristics.

scared2 on April 15, 2020 [–]

I totally agree, writing scrapers doesn't necessarily make one a talented engineer. You may often find it easier to write a scrapers than going through the API documentation or series of authentication procedures.

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