Add support for extracting the entity behind a scrape

Closes #11 Backwards incompatibility: snscrape.modules.twitter.Account is now called User. However, this was previously only used on the list member scraper, which has been broken for a while since the list member list is no longer publicly accessible. For compatibility reasons, the CLI does not output the entity by default; the new option --with-entity enables it.
2026-06-11 11:58:28 +03:00 · 2020-08-24 01:38:27 +00:00
parent c90fd54b6b
commit dd25fd0526
7 changed files with 459 additions and 40 deletions
--- a/snscrape/base.py
+++ b/snscrape/base.py
@@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ class Item:
 		pass


+class Entity:
+	'''An abstract base class for an entity returned by the scraper's get_entity method.
+
+	An entity is typically the account of a person or organisation. The string representation should be the preferred direct URL to the entity's page on the network.'''
+
+	@abc.abstractmethod
+	def __str__(self):
+		pass
+
+
+Granularity = int
+'''Type of fields storing the unit/granularity of numbers.
+
+For example, a granularity of 1000 means that the SNS returned something like '42k' and the last three significant digits are unknown.'''
+
+
 class URLItem(Item):
 	'''A generic item which only holds a URL string.'''

@@ -49,6 +65,10 @@ class Scraper:
 		'''Iterator yielding Items.'''
 		pass

+	def get_entity(self):
+		'''Get the entity behind the scraper, if any.'''
+		return None
+
 	def _request(self, method, url, params = None, data = None, headers = None, timeout = 10, responseOkCallback = None):
 		for attempt in range(self._retries + 1):
 			# The request is newly prepared on each retry because of potential cookie updates.
--- a/snscrape/cli.py
+++ b/snscrape/cli.py
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ def parse_args():
 	group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group(required = False)
 	group.add_argument('-f', '--format', dest = 'format', type = str, default = None, help = 'Output format')
 	group.add_argument('--jsonl', dest = 'jsonl', action = 'store_true', default = False, help = 'Output JSONL')
+	parser.add_argument('--with-entity', dest = 'withEntity', action = 'store_true', default = False, help = 'Include the entity (e.g. user, channel) as the first output item')
 	parser.add_argument('--since', type = parse_datetime_arg, metavar = 'DATETIME', help = 'Only return results newer than DATETIME')

 	subparsers = parser.add_subparsers(dest = 'scraper', help = 'The scraper you want to use')
@@ -236,6 +237,13 @@ def main():

 	i = 0
 	with _dump_locals_on_exception():
+		if args.withEntity:
+			entity = scraper.get_entity()
+			if entity:
+				if args.jsonl:
+					print(json.dumps(entity._asdict(), default = json_serialise_datetime))
+				else:
+					print(entity)
 		for i, item in enumerate(scraper.get_items(), start = 1):
 			if args.since is not None and item.date < args.since:
 				logger.info(f'Exiting due to reaching older results than {args.since}')
--- a/snscrape/modules/facebook.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/facebook.py
@@ -23,6 +23,25 @@ class FacebookPost(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
 		return self.cleanUrl


+class User(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Entity):
+	username: str
+	pageId: int
+	name: str
+	verified: bool
+	created: typing.Optional[datetime.date] = None
+	pageOwner: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	likes: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	followers: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	checkins: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	address: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	phone: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	web: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	keywords: typing.Optional[typing.List[str]] = None
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return f'https://www.facebook.com/{self.username}/'
+
+
 class FacebookCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 	def _clean_url(self, dirtyUrl):
 		u = urllib.parse.urlparse(dirtyUrl)
@@ -136,6 +155,19 @@ class FacebookUserAndCommunityScraper(FacebookCommonScraper):
 	def __init__(self, username, **kwargs):
 		super().__init__(**kwargs)
 		self._username = username
+		self._headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
+		self._initialPage = None
+		self._initialPageSoup = None
+
+	def _initial_page(self):
+		if self._initialPage is None:
+			logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
+			r = self._get(self._baseUrl, headers = self._headers)
+			if r.status_code not in (200, 404):
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException('Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			self._initialPage = r
+			self._initialPageSoup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
+		return self._initialPage, self._initialPageSoup

 	def get_items(self):
 		headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
@@ -143,14 +175,10 @@ class FacebookUserAndCommunityScraper(FacebookCommonScraper):
 		nextPageLinkPattern = re.compile(r'^/pages_reaction_units/more/\?page_id=')
 		spuriousForLoopPattern = re.compile(r'^for \(;;\);')

-		logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
-		r = self._get(self._baseUrl, headers = headers)
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
 		if r.status_code == 404:
 			logger.warning('User does not exist')
 			return
-		elif r.status_code != 200:
-			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException('Got status code {r.status_code}')
-		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
 		yield from self._soup_to_items(soup, self._baseUrl, 'user')
 		nextPageLink = soup.find('a', ajaxify = nextPageLinkPattern)

@@ -190,6 +218,76 @@ class FacebookUserScraper(FacebookUserAndCommunityScraper):
 		super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 		self._baseUrl = f'https://www.facebook.com/{self._username}/'

+	def get_entity(self):
+		kwargs = {}
+
+		nameVerifiedMarkupPattern = re.compile(r'"markup":\[\["__markup_a588f507_0_0",\{"__html":(".*?")\}')
+		handleDivPattern = re.compile(r'<div\s[^>]*(?<=\s)data-key\s*=\s*"tab_home".*?</div>')
+		handlePattern = re.compile(r'<a\s[^>]*(?<=\s)href="/([^/]+)')
+		months = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+		createdDatePattern = re.compile('^(' + '|'.join(months) + r') (\d+), (\d+)$')
+
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
+		if r.status_code != 200:
+			return
+
+		handleDiv = handleDivPattern.search(r.text)
+		handle = handlePattern.search(handleDiv.group(0))
+		kwargs['username'] = handle.group(1)
+
+		nameVerifiedMarkup = nameVerifiedMarkupPattern.search(r.text)
+		nameVerifiedMarkup = json.loads(nameVerifiedMarkup.group(1))
+		nameVerifiedSoup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(nameVerifiedMarkup, 'lxml')
+		kwargs['name'] = nameVerifiedSoup.find('a', class_ = '_64-f').text
+		kwargs['verified'] = bool(nameVerifiedSoup.find('a', class_ = '_56_f'))
+
+		pageTransparencyContentDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = '_61-0')
+		if pageTransparencyContentDiv.text.startswith('Page created - '):
+			createdDateMess = pageTransparencyContentDiv.text.split(' - ', 1)[1]
+			m = createdDatePattern.match(createdDateMess)
+			assert m, 'unexpected created div content'
+			kwargs['created'] = datetime.date(int(m.group(3)), months.index(m.group(1)) + 1, int(m.group(2)))
+		if pageTransparencyContentDiv.text.startswith('Confirmed Page Owner: '):
+			kwargs['pageOwner'] = pageTransparencyContentDiv.text.split(': ', 1)[1]
+
+		communityDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = '_6590')
+		for div in communityDiv.find_all('div', class_ = '_4bl9'):
+			text = div.text
+			if text.endswith(' people like this'):
+				kwargs['likes'] = int(text.split(' ', 1)[0].replace(',', ''))
+			elif text.endswith(' people follow this'):
+				kwargs['followers'] = int(text.split(' ', 1)[0].replace(',', ''))
+			elif text.endswith(' check-ins'):
+				kwargs['checkins'] = int(text.split(' ', 1)[0].replace(',', ''))
+
+		aboutDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = '_u9q')
+		if aboutDiv:
+			# As if the above wasn't already ugly enough, this is where it gets really bad...
+			for div in aboutDiv.find_all('div', class_ = '_2pi9'):
+				img = div.find('img', class_ = '_3-91')
+				if not img:
+					continue
+				if img['src'] == 'https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v3/y5/r/vfXKA62x4Da.png': # Address
+					rawAddress = div.find('div', class_ = '_2wzd').text
+					kwargs['address'] = re.sub(r' \((\d+,)?\d+(\.\d+)? mi\)', '\n', rawAddress) # Remove distance from inferred IP location, restore linebreak
+				elif img['src'] == 'https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v3/yW/r/mYv88EsODOI.png': # Phone number
+					kwargs['phone'] = div.find('div', class_ = '_4bl9').text
+				elif img['src'] == 'https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v3/yx/r/xVA3lB-GVep.png': # Web link
+					for a in div.find_all('a'):
+						if a.text == '' or 'href' not in a.attrs or a.find('span'):
+							continue
+						dirtyWeb = a['href']
+						assert dirtyWeb.startswith('https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u='), 'unexpected web link'
+						kwargs['web'] = urllib.parse.unquote(dirtyWeb.split('=', 1)[1].split('&', 1)[0])
+				elif img['src'] == 'https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v3/yl/r/LwDWwC1d0Rx.png': # Keywords
+					kwargs['keywords'] = div.find('div', class_ = '_4bl9').text.split(' · ')
+
+		androidUrlMeta = soup.find('meta', property = 'al:android:url')
+		assert androidUrlMeta['content'].startswith('fb://page/') and androidUrlMeta['content'].endswith('?referrer=app_link')
+		kwargs['pageId'] = int(androidUrlMeta['content'][10:-18])
+
+		return User(**kwargs)
+

 class FacebookCommunityScraper(FacebookUserAndCommunityScraper):
 	name = 'facebook-community'
--- a/snscrape/modules/instagram.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/instagram.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import datetime
 import hashlib
 import json
 import logging
+import re
 import snscrape.base
 import typing

@@ -26,6 +27,20 @@ class InstagramPost(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
 		return self.cleanUrl


+class User(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Entity):
+	username: str
+	name: typing.Optional[str]
+	followers: int
+	followersGranularity: snscrape.base.Granularity
+	following: int
+	followingGranularity: snscrape.base.Granularity
+	posts: int
+	postsGranularity: snscrape.base.Granularity
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return f'https://www.instagram.com/{self.username}/'
+
+
 class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 	def __init__(self, mode, name, **kwargs):
 		super().__init__(**kwargs)
@@ -34,6 +49,8 @@ class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 		self._mode = mode
 		self._name = name

+		self._headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
+
 		if self._mode == 'User':
 			self._initialUrl = f'https://www.instagram.com/{self._name}/'
 			self._pageName = 'ProfilePage'
@@ -58,6 +75,7 @@ class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			self._pageIDKey = 'id'
 			self._queryHash = '1b84447a4d8b6d6d0426fefb34514485'
 			self._variablesFormat = '{{"id":"{pageID}","first":50,"after":"{endCursor}"}}'
+		self._initialPage = None

 	def _response_to_items(self, response):
 		for node in response[self._responseContainer][self._edgeXToMedia]['edges']:
@@ -79,6 +97,17 @@ class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			  isVideo = node['node']['is_video'],
 			 )

+	def _initial_page(self):
+		if self._initialPage is None:
+			logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
+			r = self._get(self._initialUrl, headers = self._headers, responseOkCallback = self._check_initial_page_callback)
+			if r.status_code not in (200, 404):
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			elif r.url.startswith('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/'):
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException('Redirected to login page')
+			self._initialPage = r
+		return self._initialPage
+
 	def _check_initial_page_callback(self, r):
 		if r.status_code != 200:
 			return True, None
@@ -101,17 +130,10 @@ class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 		return True, None

 	def get_items(self):
-		headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
-
-		logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
-		r = self._get(self._initialUrl, headers = headers, responseOkCallback = self._check_initial_page_callback)
+		r = self._initial_page()
 		if r.status_code == 404:
 			logger.warning(f'{self._mode} does not exist')
 			return
-		elif r.status_code != 200:
-			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
-		elif r.url.startswith('https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/'):
-			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException('Redirected to login page')
 		response = r._snscrape_json_obj
 		rhxGis = response['rhx_gis'] if 'rhx_gis' in response else ''
 		if response['entry_data'][self._pageName][0]['graphql'][self._responseContainer][self._edgeXToMedia]['count'] == 0:
@@ -126,6 +148,7 @@ class InstagramCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			return
 		endCursor = response['entry_data'][self._pageName][0]['graphql'][self._responseContainer][self._edgeXToMedia]['page_info']['end_cursor']

+		headers = self._headers.copy()
 		while True:
 			logger.info(f'Retrieving endCursor = {endCursor!r}')
 			variables = self._variablesFormat.format(**locals())
@@ -156,6 +179,42 @@ class InstagramUserScraper(InstagramCommonScraper):
 	def from_args(cls, args):
 		return cls('User', args.username, retries = args.retries)

+	def get_entity(self):
+		r = self._initial_page()
+		if r.status_code != 200:
+			return
+		if '<meta property="og:description" content="' not in r.text:
+			return
+		ogDescriptionContentPos = r.text.index('<meta property="og:description" content="') + len('<meta property="og:description" content="')
+		ogDescription = r.text[ogDescriptionContentPos : r.text.index('"', ogDescriptionContentPos)]
+
+		numPattern = r'\d+(?:\.\d+)?m|\d+(?:\.\d+)?k|\d+,\d+|\d+'
+		ogDescriptionPattern = re.compile('^(' + numPattern + ') Followers, (' + numPattern + ') Following, (' + numPattern + r') Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from (?:(.*?) \(@([a-z0-9_.]+)\)|@([a-z0-9_-]+))$')
+		m = ogDescriptionPattern.match(ogDescription)
+		assert m, 'unexpected og:description format'
+
+		def parse_num(s):
+			if s.endswith('m'):
+				return int(float(s[:-1].replace(',', '')) * 1e6), 10 ** (6 if '.' not in s else 6 - len(s[:-1].replace(',', '').split('.')[1]))
+			elif s.endswith('k'):
+				return int(float(s[:-1].replace(',', '')) * 1000), 10 ** (3 if '.' not in s else 3 - len(s[:-1].replace(',', '').split('.')[1]))
+			else:
+				return int(s.replace(',', '')), 1
+
+		followers, followersGranularity = parse_num(m.group(1))
+		following, followingGranularity = parse_num(m.group(2))
+		posts, postsGranularity = parse_num(m.group(3))
+		return User(
+			username = m.group(5) or m.group(6),
+			name = m.group(4) or None,
+			followers = followers,
+			followersGranularity = followersGranularity,
+			following = following,
+			followingGranularity = followingGranularity,
+			posts = posts,
+			postsGranularity = postsGranularity,
+		  )
+

 class InstagramHashtagScraper(InstagramCommonScraper):
 	name = 'instagram-hashtag'
--- a/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/telegram.py
@@ -20,12 +20,43 @@ class TelegramPost(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
 		return self.url


+class Channel(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Entity):
+	username: str
+	title: str
+	description: str
+	verified: bool
+	photo: str
+	members: int
+	photos: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	photosGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	videos: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	videosGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	links: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	linksGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	files: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	filesGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return f'https://t.me/s/{self.username}'
+
+
 class TelegramChannelScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 	name = 'telegram-channel'

 	def __init__(self, name, **kwargs):
 		super().__init__(**kwargs)
 		self._name = name
+		self._headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36'}
+		self._initialPage = None
+		self._initialPageSoup = None
+
+	def _initial_page(self):
+		if self._initialPage is None:
+			r = self._get(f'https://t.me/s/{self._name}', headers = self._headers)
+			if r.status_code != 200:
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			self._initialPage, self._initialPageSoup = r, bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
+		return self._initialPage, self._initialPageSoup

 	def _soup_to_items(self, soup, pageUrl):
 		posts = soup.find_all('div', attrs = {'class': 'tgme_widget_message', 'data-post': True})
@@ -43,19 +74,58 @@ class TelegramChannelScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			yield TelegramPost(url = f'https://t.me/s/{post["data-post"]}', date = date, content = content, outlinks = outlinks, outlinksss = outlinksss)

 	def get_items(self):
-		headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36'}
-
-		nextPageUrl = f'https://t.me/s/{self._name}'
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
 		while True:
+			yield from self._soup_to_items(soup, r.url)
+			pageLink = soup.find('a', attrs = {'class': 'tme_messages_more', 'data-before': True})
+			if not pageLink:
+				break
+			nextPageUrl = urllib.parse.urljoin(r.url, pageLink['href'])
 			r = self._get(nextPageUrl, headers = headers)
 			if r.status_code != 200:
 				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
 			soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
-			yield from self._soup_to_items(soup, nextPageUrl)
-			pageLink = soup.find('a', attrs = {'class': 'tme_messages_more', 'data-before': True})
-			if not pageLink:
-				break
-			nextPageUrl = urllib.parse.urljoin(nextPageUrl, pageLink['href'])
+
+	def get_entity(self):
+		kwargs = {}
+		# /channel has a more accurate member count and bigger profile picture
+		r = self._get(f'https://t.me/{self._name}', headers = self._headers)
+		if r.status_code != 200:
+			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
+		membersDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_page_extra')
+		assert membersDiv.text.endswith(' members')
+		kwargs['members'] = int(membersDiv.text[:-8].replace(' ', ''))
+		kwargs['photo'] = soup.find('img', class_ = 'tgme_page_photo_image').attrs['src']
+
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
+		channelInfoDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_channel_info')
+		assert channelInfoDiv, 'channel info div not found'
+		titleDiv = channelInfoDiv.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_channel_info_header_title')
+		kwargs['title'] = titleDiv.find('span').text
+		kwargs['verified'] = bool(titleDiv.find('i', class_ = 'verified-icon'))
+		kwargs['username'] = channelInfoDiv.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_channel_info_header_username').text[1:] # Remove @
+		kwargs['description'] = channelInfoDiv.find('div', class_ = 'tgme_channel_info_description').text
+
+		def parse_num(s):
+			s = s.replace(' ', '')
+			if s.endswith('M'):
+				return int(float(s[:-1]) * 1e6), 10 ** (6 if '.' not in s else 6 - len(s[:-1].split('.')[1]))
+			elif s.endswith('K'):
+				return int(float(s[:-1]) * 1000), 10 ** (3 if '.' not in s else 3 - len(s[:-1].split('.')[1]))
+			else:
+				return int(s), 1
+
+		for div in channelInfoDiv.find_all('div', class_ = 'tgme_channel_info_counter'):
+			value, granularity = parse_num(div.find('span', class_ = 'counter_value').text)
+			type_ = div.find('span', class_ = 'counter_type').text
+			if type_ == 'members':
+				# Already extracted more accurately from /channel, skip
+				continue
+			elif type_ in ('photos', 'videos', 'links', 'files'):
+				kwargs[type_], kwargs[f'{type_}Granularity'] = value, granularity
+
+		return Channel(**kwargs)

 	@classmethod
 	def setup_parser(cls, subparser):
--- a/snscrape/modules/twitter.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/twitter.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import bs4
 import datetime
+import email.utils
+import itertools
 import json
 import random
 import logging
@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@ import urllib.parse


 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+_API_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER = 'Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs=1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA'


 class Tweet(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
@@ -28,8 +31,30 @@ class Tweet(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
 		return self.url


-class Account(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
+class DescriptionURL(typing.NamedTuple):
+	text: str
+	url: str
+	tcourl: str
+	indices: typing.Tuple[int, int]
+
+
+class User(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item, snscrape.base.Entity):
+	# This is both an Item and an Entity since it can be returned as TwitterUserScraper's entity as well as TwitterListMembersScraper's items.
+	# Most fields can be None if they're not known.
+
 	username: str
+	description: typing.Optional[str] = None # Description as it's displayed on the web interface with URLs replaced
+	rawDescription: typing.Optional[str] = None # Raw description with the URL(s) intact
+	descriptionUrls: typing.Optional[typing.List[DescriptionURL]] = None
+	verified: typing.Optional[bool] = None
+	created: typing.Optional[datetime.datetime] = None
+	followersCount: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	friendsCount: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	statusesCount: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	linkUrl: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	linkTcourl: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	profileImageUrl: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	profileBannerUrl: typing.Optional[str] = None

 	@property
 	def url(self):
@@ -117,7 +142,7 @@ class TwitterSearchScraper(TwitterCommonScraper):
 		if r.status_code == 429:
 			# Accept a 429 response as "valid" to prevent retries; handled explicitly in get_items
 			return True, None
-		if r.headers.get('content-type') != 'application/json;charset=utf-8':
+		if r.headers.get('content-type').replace(' ', '') != 'application/json;charset=utf-8':
 			return False, f'content type is not JSON'
 		if r.status_code != 200:
 			return False, f'non-200 status code'
@@ -126,7 +151,7 @@ class TwitterSearchScraper(TwitterCommonScraper):
 	def get_items(self):
 		headers = {
 			'User-Agent': self._userAgent,
-			'Authorization': 'Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs=1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA',
+			'Authorization': _API_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER,
 			'Referer': self._baseUrl,
 		}
 		if self._guestToken:
@@ -232,6 +257,55 @@ class TwitterUserScraper(TwitterSearchScraper):
 		super().__init__(f'from:{username}', **kwargs)
 		self._username = username

+	def get_entity(self):
+		while True:
+			if not self._guestToken:
+				self._guestToken = self._get_guest_token(f'https://twitter.com/{self._username}')
+
+			params = {'variables': json.dumps({'screen_name': self._username, 'withHighlightedLabel': True}, separators = (',', ':'))}
+			r = self._get(f'https://api.twitter.com/graphql/-xfUfZsnR_zqjFd-IfrN5A/UserByScreenName',
+			              params = urllib.parse.urlencode(params, quote_via=urllib.parse.quote),
+			              headers = {'User-Agent': self._userAgent, 'Authorization': _API_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER, 'Referer': 'https://twitter.com/', 'x-guest-token': self._guestToken},
+			              responseOkCallback = self._check_scroll_response,
+			             )
+			if r.status_code == 429:
+				self._guestToken = None
+				del self._session.cookies['gt']
+				continue
+			elif r.status_code != 200:
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			try:
+				obj = r.json()
+			except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException('Received invalid JSON from Twitter') from e
+			user = obj['data']['user']
+			rawDescription = user['legacy']['description']
+			if user['legacy']['entities']['description']['urls']:
+				description = []
+				description.append(rawDescription[:user['legacy']['entities']['description']['urls'][0]['indices'][0]])
+				urls = sorted(user['legacy']['entities']['description']['urls'], key = lambda x: x['indices'][0])
+				for url, nextUrl in itertools.zip_longest(urls, urls[1:]):
+					description.append(url['display_url'])
+					description.append(rawDescription[url['indices'][1] : nextUrl['indices'][0] if nextUrl is not None else None])
+				description = ''.join(description)
+			else:
+				description = rawDescription
+			return User(
+				username = user['legacy']['screen_name'],
+				description = description,
+				rawDescription = rawDescription,
+				descriptionUrls = [{'text': x['display_url'], 'url': x['expanded_url'], 'tcourl': x['url'], 'indices': tuple(x['indices'])} for x in user['legacy']['entities']['description']['urls']],
+				verified = user['legacy']['verified'],
+				created = email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime(user['legacy']['created_at']),
+				followersCount = user['legacy']['followers_count'],
+				friendsCount = user['legacy']['friends_count'],
+				statusesCount = user['legacy']['statuses_count'],
+				linkUrl = user['legacy']['entities']['url']['urls'][0]['expanded_url'] if 'url' in user['legacy']['entities'] else None,
+				linkTcourl = user['legacy'].get('url'),
+				profileImageUrl = user['legacy']['profile_image_url_https'],
+				profileBannerUrl = user['legacy'].get('profile_banner_url'),
+			  )
+
 	@classmethod
 	def setup_parser(cls, subparser):
 		subparser.add_argument('username', help = 'A Twitter username (without @)')
@@ -360,7 +434,7 @@ class TwitterListMembersScraper(TwitterCommonScraper):
 			logger.warning('Empty list')
 			return
 		for item in items:
-			yield Account(username = item.find('div', 'account')['data-screen-name'])
+			yield User(username = item.find('div', 'account')['data-screen-name'])

 		if not container.has_attr('data-min-position') or container['data-min-position'] == '':
 			return
@@ -375,7 +449,7 @@ class TwitterListMembersScraper(TwitterCommonScraper):
 			soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(obj['items_html'], 'lxml')
 			items = soup.find_all('li', 'js-stream-item')
 			for item in items:
-				yield Account(username = item.find('div', 'account')['data-screen-name'])
+				yield User(username = item.find('div', 'account')['data-screen-name'])
 			if not obj['has_more_items']:
 				break
 			maxPosition = obj['min_position']
--- a/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py
+++ b/snscrape/modules/vkontakte.py
@@ -19,37 +19,63 @@ class VKontaktePost(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Item):
 		return self.url


+class User(typing.NamedTuple, snscrape.base.Entity):
+	username: str
+	name: str
+	verified: bool
+	description: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	websites: typing.Optional[typing.List[str]] = None
+	followers: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	followersGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	posts: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	postsGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	photos: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	photosGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	tags: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	tagsGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+	following: typing.Optional[int] = None
+	followingGranularity: typing.Optional[snscrape.base.Granularity] = None
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return f'https://vk.com/{self.username}'
+
+
 class VKontakteUserScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 	name = 'vkontakte-user'

 	def __init__(self, username, **kwargs):
 		super().__init__(**kwargs)
 		self._username = username
+		self._baseUrl = f'https://vk.com/{self._username}'
+		self._headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
+		self._initialPage = None
+		self._initialPageSoup = None

-	def _soup_to_items(self, soup, baseUrl):
+	def _soup_to_items(self, soup):
 		for post in soup.find_all('div', class_ = 'post'):
 			dateSpan = post.find('div', class_ = 'post_date').find('span', class_ = 'rel_date')
 			textDiv = post.find('div', class_ = 'wall_post_text')
 			yield VKontaktePost(
-			  url = urllib.parse.urljoin(baseUrl, post.find('a', class_ = 'post_link')['href']),
+			  url = urllib.parse.urljoin(self._baseUrl, post.find('a', class_ = 'post_link')['href']),
 			  date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(dateSpan['time']), datetime.timezone.utc) if 'time' in dateSpan else None,
 			  content = textDiv.text if textDiv else None,
 			 )

-	def get_items(self):
-		headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
-		baseUrl = f'https://vk.com/{self._username}'
+	def _initial_page(self):
+		if self._initialPage is None:
+			logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
+			r = self._get(self._baseUrl, headers = self._headers)
+			if r.status_code not in (200, 404):
+				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			# VK sends windows-1251-encoded data, but Requests's decoding doesn't seem to work correctly and causes lxml to choke, so we need to pass the binary content and the encoding explicitly.
+			self._initialPage, self._initialPageSoup = r, bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml', from_encoding = r.encoding)
+		return self._initialPage, self._initialPageSoup

-		logger.info('Retrieving initial data')
-		r = self._get(baseUrl, headers = headers)
+	def get_items(self):
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
 		if r.status_code == 404:
 			logger.warning('Wall does not exist')
 			return
-		elif r.status_code != 200:
-			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
-
-		# VK sends windows-1251-encoded data, but Requests's decoding doesn't seem to work correctly and causes lxml to choke, so we need to pass the binary content and the encoding explicitly.
-		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'lxml', from_encoding = r.encoding)

 		if soup.find('div', class_ = 'profile_closed_wall_dummy'):
 			logger.warning('Private profile')
@@ -72,7 +98,7 @@ class VKontakteUserScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 		else:
 			fixedPostID = ''

-		yield from self._soup_to_items(soup, baseUrl)
+		yield from self._soup_to_items(soup)

 		headers['X-Requested-With'] = 'XMLHttpRequest'
 		for offset in itertools.count(start = 10, step = 10):
@@ -92,7 +118,71 @@ class VKontakteUserScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
 			if not posts.startswith('<div id="post'):
 				raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got an unknown response: {posts[:200]!r}...')
 			soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(posts, 'lxml')
-			yield from self._soup_to_items(soup, baseUrl)
+			yield from self._soup_to_items(soup)
+
+	def get_entity(self):
+		r, soup = self._initial_page()
+		if r.status_code != 200:
+			return
+		kwargs = {}
+		kwargs['username'] = r.url.rsplit('/', 1)[1]
+		nameH1 = soup.find('h1', class_ = 'page_name')
+		kwargs['name'] = nameH1.text
+		kwargs['verified'] = bool(nameH1.find('div', class_ = 'page_verified'))
+		infoDiv = soup.find('div', id = 'page_info_wrap')
+
+		descriptionDiv = soup.find('div', id = 'page_current_info')
+		if descriptionDiv:
+			kwargs['description'] = descriptionDiv.text
+		websites = []
+		for rowDiv in infoDiv.find_all('div', class_ = ['profile_info_row', 'group_info_row']):
+			if 'profile_info_row' in rowDiv['class']:
+				labelDiv = rowDiv.find('div', class_ = 'fl_l')
+				if not labelDiv or labelDiv.text != 'Website:':
+					continue
+			else: # group_info_row
+				if rowDiv['title'] == 'Description':
+					kwargs['description'] = rowDiv.text
+				if rowDiv['title'] != 'Website':
+					continue
+			for a in rowDiv.find_all('a'):
+				if not a['href'].startswith('/away.php?to='):
+					logger.warning(f'Skipping odd website link: {a["href"]!r}')
+					continue
+				websites.append(urllib.parse.unquote(a['href'].split('=', 1)[1].split('&', 1)[0]))
+		if websites:
+			kwargs['websites'] = websites
+
+		def parse_num(s):
+			if s.endswith('K'):
+				return int(s[:-1]) * 1000, 1000
+			else:
+				return int(s.replace(',', '')), 1
+
+		countsDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'counts_module')
+		if countsDiv:
+			for a in countsDiv.find_all('a', class_ = 'page_counter'):
+				count, granularity = parse_num(a.find('div', class_ = 'count').text)
+				label = a.find('div', class_ = 'label').text
+				if label in ('follower', 'post', 'photo', 'tag'):
+					label = f'{label}s'
+				if label in ('followers', 'posts', 'photos', 'tags'):
+					kwargs[label], kwargs[f'{label}Granularity'] = count, granularity
+
+		idolsDiv = soup.find('div', id = 'profile_idols')
+		if idolsDiv:
+			topDiv = idolsDiv.find('div', class_ = 'header_top')
+			if topDiv and topDiv.find('span', class_ = 'header_label').text == 'Following':
+				kwargs['following'], kwargs['followingGranularity'] = parse_num(topDiv.find('span', class_ = 'header_count').text)
+
+		# On public pages, this is where followers are listed
+		followersDiv = soup.find('div', id = 'public_followers')
+		if followersDiv:
+			topDiv = followersDiv.find('div', class_ = 'header_top')
+			if topDiv and topDiv.find('span', class_ = 'header_label').text == 'Followers':
+				kwargs['followers'], kwargs['followersGranularity'] = parse_num(topDiv.find('span', class_ = 'header_count').text)
+
+		return User(**kwargs)

 	@classmethod
 	def setup_parser(cls, subparser):