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twscrapeR: Twitter/X Scraping via Python's 'twscrape' Library

A comprehensive R interface to Python's 'twscrape' library for scraping Twitter/X data. This package uses 'reticulate' to provide a seamless R interface to the fully functional Python 'twscrape' library. Supports searching tweets, user timelines, followers, and more, with built-in rate limiting and multi-account support. Built on top of 'twscrape' by vladkens <https://github.com/vladkens/twscrape> and inspired by 'snscrape' by JustAnotherArchivist <https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape>.

Version: 0.1.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.6.0)
Imports: reticulate (≥ 1.20), cli (≥ 3.0.0), jsonlite
Suggests: dplyr, purrr, tibble, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-06-03
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.twscrapeR
Author: Agustin Nieto [aut, cre], Claude AI [ctb] (Package development assistance)
Maintainer: Agustin Nieto <agustin.nieto77 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/agusnieto77/twscrapeR/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/agusnieto77/twscrapeR
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: twscrapeR results

Documentation:

Reference manual: twscrapeR.html , twscrapeR.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: twscrapeR_0.1.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: twscrapeR_0.1.3.zip, r-release: twscrapeR_0.1.3.zip, r-oldrel: twscrapeR_0.1.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): twscrapeR_0.1.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): twscrapeR_0.1.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): twscrapeR_0.1.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): twscrapeR_0.1.3.tgz

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