{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/8"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Scrapes user profiles, posts, hashtags, and searches from multiple social networks (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Mastodon, Telegram, VKontakte, Weibo) via CLI or Python library, returning URLs or structured data.","skillfed_tags":["web-scraping","social-media","data-collection"],"use_cases":["Archive Twitter threads or user timelines for research, journalism, or personal record-keeping.","Collect hashtag posts from Instagram or Twitter for sentiment analysis or trend monitoring.","Scrape Reddit discussions or subreddit posts for data analysis or community research.","Gather user profile information or public posts from multiple platforms in bulk.","Export social media data to JSONL format for downstream processing or database ingestion."],"what_it_does":"snscrape is a multi-platform social network scraper that extracts posts, profiles, hashtags, and search results from eight services: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Mastodon, Telegram, VKontakte, and Weibo. It works both as a command-line tool (outputting URLs or JSONL) and as a Python library, though library usage is undocumented. The tool depends on requests, lxml, beautifulsoup4, filelock, and pytz to handle HTTP requests, HTML parsing, and timezone logic.\n\nThe project is in Beta status and has been dormant since mid-2023\u2014the last release was June 2023 and the last commit November 2023. While it has no known security vulnerabilities and low install friction, the lack of recent maintenance means scrapers may break as target platforms change their page layouts or APIs. It is licensed under GPLv3+, requiring any derivative work to remain open-source.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need to scrape social media data and can tolerate dormant maintenance. The low install friction and lack of vulnerabilities make it safe to try. However, be prepared for scrapers to break without warning as platforms change; test against your target service first and monitor the GitHub repository for community fixes. Not suitable for production systems requiring active support."},"id":"snscrape","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/snscrape","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/snscrape.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/snscrape/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2023-06-22","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"snscrape","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"A social networking service scraper"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":73937,"position":14907,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.7.0.20230622"}