Archive media in Twitter scraper

Pipfile.lock

@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@
         },
         "snscrape": {
             "git": "https://github.com/bellingcat/snscrape.git",
-            "ref": "72b26f2373f3fecf53bdf9c62d7408df3d15a329"
+            "ref": "de4ebed81f3f6a4bb4c65630daab6ec63784959b"
         },
         "soupsieve": {
             "hashes": [

cisticola/scraper/twitter.py

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import cisticola.base
 import cisticola.scraper.base
-from datetime import datetime
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from typing import List
 import snscrape.modules
+from loguru import logger
 
 
 class TwitterScraper(cisticola.scraper.base.Scraper):
@@ -20,13 +21,43 @@ class TwitterScraper(cisticola.scraper.base.Scraper):
 
     def get_posts(self, channel: cisticola.base.Channel, since: cisticola.base.ScraperResult = None) -> List[cisticola.base.ScraperResult]:
         posts = []
-        scraper = snscrape.modules.twitter.TwitterUserScraper(
+        scraper = snscrape.modules.twitter.TwitterProfileScraper(
             TwitterScraper.get_username_from_url(channel.url))
 
+        first = True
+
         for tweet in scraper.get_items():
-            if since is not None and tweet.date.timestamp() <= since.date_archived.timestamp():
+            if len(posts) >= 10:
                 break
 
+            if since is not None and tweet.date.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc) <= since.date_archived.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc):
+                # with TwitterProfileScraper, the first tweet could be an old pinned tweet
+                if first:
+                    first = False
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    break
+
+            archived_urls = {}
+
+            if tweet.media:
+                for media in tweet.media:
+                    if type(media) == snscrape.modules.twitter.Video:
+                        variant = max(
+                            [v for v in media.variants if v.bitrate], key=lambda v: v.bitrate)
+                        url = variant.url
+                    elif type(media) == snscrape.modules.twitter.Gif:
+                        url = media.variants[0].url
+                    elif type(media) == snscrape.modules.twitter.Photo:
+                        url = media.fullUrl
+                    else:
+                        logger.warning(f"Could not get media URL of {media}")
+                        url = None
+
+                    if url is not None:
+                        archived_url = self.archive_media(url)
+                        archived_urls[url] = archived_url
+
             posts.append(cisticola.base.ScraperResult(
                 scraper=self.__version__,
                 platform="Twitter",
@@ -34,7 +65,8 @@ class TwitterScraper(cisticola.scraper.base.Scraper):
                 platform_id=tweet.id,
                 date=tweet.date,
                 date_archived=datetime.now(),
-                raw_data=tweet.json()))
+                raw_data=tweet.json(),
+                archived_urls=archived_urls))
 
         return posts
 

test.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import cisticola
 import cisticola.scraper.telegram_snscrape
+import cisticola.scraper.twitter
 
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
 
@@ -25,13 +26,13 @@ test_channels = [cisticola.base.Channel(id=0, name="Logan Williams (test)", plat
 
 controller = cisticola.ScraperController()
 
-# scraper = cisticola.scraper.twitter.TwitterScraper()
+twitter = cisticola.scraper.twitter.TwitterScraper()
-# controller.register_scraper(scraper)
+controller.register_scraper(twitter)
 
-scraper = cisticola.scraper.telegram_snscrape.TelegramSnscrapeScraper()
+telegram = cisticola.scraper.telegram_snscrape.TelegramSnscrapeScraper()
-controller.register_scraper(scraper)
+controller.register_scraper(telegram)
 
-engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test4.db')
+engine = create_engine('sqlite:///test.db')
 controller.connect_to_db(engine)
 
 controller.scrape_channels(test_channels)