snscrape

Social Media OSINT

A social networking service scraper for extracting user profiles, hashtags, and searches

About

snscrape is a Python package for scraping social networking services, supporting platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and providing features like JSON output and entity information

Details

snscrape is a versatile tool for extracting data from social media platforms. It supports scraping of user profiles, hashtags, and searches across multiple services, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Reddit, Telegram, Twitter, VKontakte, and Weibo. The package provides a command-line interface (CLI) with options like --jsonl for JSON output and --with-entity for including entity information. It also allows for library usage in Python, although this is currently undocumented. snscrape requires Python 3.8 or higher and has dependencies that are installed automatically. The package is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later and is available for download on PyPI.