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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon JustAnotherArchivist

Truth Social

Open TheTechRobo opened this issue 3 years ago • 7 comments

When Truth Social is finally released to the public (if it's available to the unauthenticated) and I'm finished the parler scraper I'll probably add it to snscrape. It seems like a pretty volatile site.

TheTechRobo avatar Feb 20 '22 14:02 TheTechRobo

So... is anything publicly accessible?

JustAnotherArchivist avatar Apr 12 '22 19:04 JustAnotherArchivist

Hmm, from Wikipedia:

The service is only accessible via an iPhone app,[2] and access is limited to users in the United States and Canada.[3]

As I don't use and am not planning on using Truth Social, I can't experiment with their app, so I'm not sure if it requires an account, although since it's limited to the US and Canada it probably does.

It's based on Mastodon, apparently, and open source so that stuff can probably be figured out.

TheTechRobo avatar Apr 12 '22 19:04 TheTechRobo

As far as I can tell, everything requires auth. So closing this as non-actionable. If someone discovers that there is a way to bypass the login requirement, we can reopen this.

JustAnotherArchivist avatar Jun 14 '22 00:06 JustAnotherArchivist

Great timing... When I was experimenting with it last night, it wasn't accessible (at least the things I tested), but now it apparently is, see #493.

JustAnotherArchivist avatar Jun 14 '22 12:06 JustAnotherArchivist

Thx. Sorry for posting in sep thread.

frisch1 avatar Jun 14 '22 13:06 frisch1

Here's a Truth Social API wrapper: https://github.com/stanfordio/truthbrush Unfortunately it requires authentication, there doesn't seem to be a way around that.

trislee avatar Jun 23 '22 20:06 trislee

snscrape can't and won't do auth: #270.

But the API is now accessible it seems, again see #493

TheTechRobo avatar Jun 23 '22 20:06 TheTechRobo