Bug#914908: RFP: snscrape — A social networking service scraper in Python
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Upstream Developer: https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape
* License: This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
* Programming Language: Python3.6
* Description:
snscrape is a scraper for social networking services (SNS). It scrapes things like user profiles, hashtags, or searches and returns the discovered items, e.g. the relevant posts.
- The following services are currently
supported:
• Facebook: user profiles
• Google Plus: user profiles
• Instagram: user profiles
• Twitter: user profiles, hashtags, and searches
* Requirements:
snscrape requires Python 3.6 or higher. The Python package dependencies are installed automatically when you install snscrape.
Note that one of the dependencies, lxml, also requires libxml2 and libxslt to be installed.
(sudo apt-get install libxslt1-dev python3-libxml2 python3-lxml)
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