{"id":34492,"date":"2025-06-26T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/alternatives-to-the-x-api-for-a-student-project\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:27:17","slug":"alternatives-to-the-x-api-for-a-student-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/alternatives-to-the-x-api-for-a-student-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives To The X API For A Student Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi community,<\/p>\n

I’m a student working on my undergraduate thesis, which involves mapping the narrative discourses on the environmental crisis on X. To do this, I need to scrape public tweets containing keywords like “climate change” and “deforestation” for subsequent content analysis.<\/p>\n

My biggest challenge is the new API limitations, which have made access very expensive and restrictive for academic projects without funding.<\/p>\n

So, I’m asking for your help: does anyone know of a viable way to collect this data nowadays? I’m looking for:<\/p>\n

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  1. Python code or libraries<\/strong> that can still effectively extract public tweets.<\/li>\n
  2. Web scraping tools or third-party platforms<\/strong> (preferably free) that can work around the API limitations.<\/li>\n
  3. Any strategy or workaround<\/strong> that would allow access to this data for research purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Any tip, tutorial link, or tool name would be a huge help. Thank you so much!<\/p>\n

    TL;DR:<\/strong> Student with zero budget needs to scrape X for a thesis. Since the API is off-limits, what are the current best methods or tools to get public tweet data?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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