I got two errors:

1. The first error occured after grabbing links from wayback machine UnboundLocalError: local variable 'wayback_id' referenced before assignment

2. Second, the error occured when I typed 'text' or 'both' AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getText'

please help, thanks.

Hello,

Thanks for the app which helps save a lot of time. I have tried with several users and in various ways and it does not work. I pass the screenshots of the errors.

Thank you very much.

Hello,

We recently came across your project, and thought we could contribute by re-writing some parts of the code. An effort was made to keep the logic and structure of the code the same.

By our metrics, we have achieved a speed-up of around 20-30% for accounts with over 1000 tweets. We don't have any actual tests written for the script however, so we have attached it here for review.

A substantial change was moving from Selenium to Playwright. Users need to run 'playwright install' to install the playwright browsers before running the script.

Another smaller, but notable change is that due to the nature of the as_completed function, it is not possible to show any indicator of progress during the gathering of statuses, and the order in which the tweets are returned is scrambled due to the script processing website information based on what web request finishes first.

If the style & format of the re-write is acceptable, and the changes proposed are not considered to be critical, we will proceed with creating a pull request.

twayback2.txt

Hi, when I try to search for deleted tweets from an account that uses cyrillic, the process fails with the following exception:

Parsing text...: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4/4 [00:07<00:00, 2.00s/it] Traceback (most recent call last): File "twayback.py", line 184, in File "encodings\cp1250.py", line 19, in encode UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u0430' in position 0: character maps to [20476] Failed to execute script 'twayback' due to unhandled exception!

Anything that could be done on my end? Thanks,

Hi,

after the latest update, the tool seems to be working perfectly when scraping accounts with lower number of tweets archived, but when I tried accounts with 1000+ tweets archived, the process failed with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\15tway\twayback B\twayback.py", line 112, in wayback_url = (jsonResponse['archived_snapshots']['closest']['url']) KeyError: 'closest'

as also seen below on the screenshots.

Hi! Does anyone else, after they pull one search of an user, get an "No deleted tweets have been found" when they try to look for another one? I even try with the same one I did first and it pulls the same thing. I even close and open again the terminal but nothing, got the same issue. Was anyone run into this?

No changes to functionality. I went through and added some more comments, renamed variables to be more descriptive and combined some redundancy with list creation

to avoid rate limiting for large groups of tweets added the ability to use proxies with our GET requests. User will need to provide a list of proxy URLs for the script to randomly pull from

It looks like twitter is throwing up 429 (too many requests) after the first 900 or so hits. According to their API documentation they limit to around 900 hits per 15 minutes. Although we are not using the API, it seems they are putting similar limiting in place per IP.

I've begun working on a branch that lets users plug in a list of proxies the script will rotate through to avoid 429. This does make the tool less approachable but at this point it's not working on large groups of tweets. Will keep everyone updated

I am submitting this PR so that newbie cyber people & OSINT Analysts with no python experience can better understand installation and usage.

• There is no information about using the command git clone in order to clone the repository
• No information in regards to changing directory | cd
• No information in regards to the command pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• No information in regards to the command python3 twayback.py -u username (if we put ourselves in the shoes of anyone without any python knowledge, they will just write in their terminal twayback.py which won't be of any use, it's typically something I would have done in the past as when reading installation & usage instructions I would just copy paste without trying to understand. 🤦

Hope this helps a little, awesome tool & thanks for putting it out there !

Module aiohttp is required

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gdhindii/twayback/twayback.py", line 18, in <module>
    from aiohttp import ClientSession, TCPConnector
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'aiohttp'

I am not sure this is an issue or just lack of knowledge from my part, I rather suspect it is the latter, however, I am attempting to recover tweets from an account that has a couple of thousand deleted tweets. I eventually encounter a rate limit error as is to be expected. I saw the way to handle requests like these is to use a proxy file. Now I have a .txt file that I added inside the twayback folder with a list of proxies and formatted according to the guidelines:

url:port url:port url:port

and so on. I keep getting error for each proxy server so Im not sure if Im doing this right and what the issue could be. It will stay stuck at 0%, switch between proxies until it eventually just gives up with a "" error.

My request looks like this:

python3 twayback.py --proxy-file proxyfiles.txt -u USERNAME

Am I doing this correctly?

once I launch the app it closes itself, it was working fine before the last update I tried downloading a pervious version and the same thing happened I tried it on 2 devices and it didn't work on any of them