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Add --max-empty-pages option to stop long (potentially infinite) empty pagination

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Fixes #636
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JustAnotherArchivist
2023-01-13 02:35:48 +00:00
parent 7de8d734e9
commit 129ad3fc34
1 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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snscrape/modules/twitter.py
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@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ class _TwitterAPIType(enum.Enum):
class _TwitterAPIScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
def __init__(self, baseUrl, *, guestTokenManager = None, **kwargs):
def __init__(self, baseUrl, *, guestTokenManager = None, maxEmptyPages = 0, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
self._baseUrl = baseUrl
if guestTokenManager is None:
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ class _TwitterAPIScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
_globalGuestTokenManager = GuestTokenManager()
guestTokenManager = _globalGuestTokenManager
self._guestTokenManager = guestTokenManager
self._maxEmptyPages = maxEmptyPages
self._apiHeaders = {
'User-Agent': None,
'Authorization': _API_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER,
@@ -729,6 +730,7 @@ class _TwitterAPIScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
dir = 'bottom'
stopOnEmptyResponse = False
emptyResponsesOnCursor = 0
emptyPages = 0
while True:
_logger.info(f'Retrieving scroll page {cursor}')
obj = self._get_api_data(endpoint, apiType, reqParams)
@@ -785,6 +787,11 @@ class _TwitterAPIScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
emptyResponsesOnCursor += 1
if emptyResponsesOnCursor > self._retries:
break
if tweetCount == 0:
emptyPages += 1
if self._maxEmptyPages and emptyPages >= self._maxEmptyPages:
_logger.warning(f'Stopping after {emptyPages} empty pages')
break
if not newCursor or (stopOnEmptyResponse and tweetCount == 0):
# End of pagination
if promptCursor is not None:
@@ -1403,9 +1410,10 @@ class _TwitterAPIScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
class TwitterSearchScraper(_TwitterAPIScraper):
name = 'twitter-search'
def __init__(self, query, *, cursor = None, top = False, **kwargs):
def __init__(self, query, *, cursor = None, top = False, maxEmptyPages = 20, **kwargs):
if not query.strip():
raise ValueError('empty query')
kwargs['maxEmptyPages'] = maxEmptyPages
super().__init__(baseUrl = 'https://twitter.com/search?' + urllib.parse.urlencode({'f': 'live', 'lang': 'en', 'q': query, 'src': 'spelling_expansion_revert_click'}), **kwargs)
self._query = query # Note: may get replaced by subclasses when using user ID resolution
self._cursor = cursor
@@ -1472,11 +1480,12 @@ class TwitterSearchScraper(_TwitterAPIScraper):
def _cli_setup_parser(cls, subparser):
subparser.add_argument('--cursor', metavar = 'CURSOR')
subparser.add_argument('--top', action = 'store_true', default = False, help = 'Enable fetching top tweets instead of live/chronological')
subparser.add_argument('--max-empty-pages', dest = 'maxEmptyPages', metavar = 'N', type = int, default = 20, help = 'Stop after N empty pages from Twitter; set to 0 to disable')
subparser.add_argument('query', type = snscrape.base.nonempty_string('query'), help = 'A Twitter search string')
@classmethod
def _cli_from_args(cls, args):
return cls._cli_construct(args, args.query, cursor = args.cursor, top = args.top)
return cls._cli_construct(args, args.query, cursor = args.cursor, top = args.top, maxEmptyPages = args.maxEmptyPages)
class TwitterUserScraper(TwitterSearchScraper):