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You can scrape anything you see in the UI (and sometimes stuff you cannot see). Twitter makes almost no effort to stop people from using their internal APIs, which is why them saying discontinuing the free public API is to stop malicious bots is pretty laughable. Unless they seriously increase their detection abilities for non-approved clients using their internal API, it would take any malicious actor all of a few hours to transition to using the internal API for whatever they want. Honestly, I assumed most bad actors would already be doing this, since things like spamming were already against the ToS of the public API.



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