Hacker News: zedeus

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

zedeus — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:02:14 +0000

From the letter(s):

> X has documentary evidence that you are scraping X Data, circumventing X’s API access controls and rate limits, accessing X using X accounts and session tokens in violation of X’s rules, and republishing X Data to the public. X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement, and Developer Policy strictly forbid such conduct. See https://x.com/en/tos (“[C]rawling or scraping the Services in any form . . . is expressly prohibited.”). By your own description, Nitter “uses Twitter’s unofficial API” and routes all requests through your servers, and requires operators to supply real X accounts to function.

> Your actions constitute a flagrant breach of the contractual and legal obligations you agreed to when accessing the X services. Your actions also violate various state and federal laws, including, but not limited to, the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act (§ 143.001 and § 33.02) and the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 1114, 1125).

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter is working again"

zedeus — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:58:51 +0000

Maybe you don't use it very often? For months before the recent chaos it was very reliable. The fact that it's working today is only because I fixed it, Twitter didn't change anything.

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter is working again"

zedeus — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:31:50 +0000

It's disabled on nitter.net to reduce load while this new solution is being tested. Check the instance list for updated instances, most of them have RSS enabled: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter is working again"

zedeus — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:30:58 +0000

Search, which is required for the multi-timeline feature, isn't implemented right now. I have a fix in the works using a legacy endpoint.

New comment by zedeus in "New connections between circadian rhythm and muscle repair"

zedeus — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 23:35:16 +0000

Broken link?

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:24:17 +0000

I have no idea, maybe "false flag" was too incorrect? You're right, I am.

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:02:52 +0000

Any rate limit errors are false flags caused by bugs, they aren't related to load or real rate limits

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:47:14 +0000

This isn't actually true, the "Instance has been rate limited" error was a false flag. It turned out to be a bug in the API token parser, found and fixed by a contributor. Nitter instances have yet to run into a real rate limit.

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:46:20 +0000

The old rate limit errors were false flags caused by a bug in the API token parser. Nitter instances have yet to run into a real rate limit.

New comment by zedeus in "Show HN: I built a minimal Twitter web app with few rules"

zedeus — Tue, 26 May 2020 09:46:15 +0000

Nitter supports lists the same way Twitter does. Example: https://nitter.net/NASA/lists/Astronauts

You can sort of create your own too (currently limited to ~25 profiles due to Twitter limitations), like this: https://nitter.net/SpaceX,elonmusk,ID_AA_Carmack

New comment by zedeus in "Twint – Twitter scraping tool written in Python"

zedeus — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:15:24 +0000

Inspired by Twint I created an alternative web client that relies almost entirely on web scraping. The parser is more complete than Twint's due to the different goals, supporting things like polls and videos properly. It's still work in progress but very usable with features like RSS and convenient profile search. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:49:47 +0000

No content gets edited by Nitter except links being expanded and twitter/youtube links getting replaced (unless the user disables that)

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:46:51 +0000

It doesn't take much to run Nitter really, the nitter.net instance is currently sitting at 310 MB of memory and the CPU requirements aren't too bad. It's running off my dedicated home server with fairly low specs (i3-8100) tunnelled through a cheap VPS to bypass firewall restrictions. It hasn't crashed or (to my knowledge) experienced severe slowdowns despite the huge traffic increase today. Invidious's story is a bit different as the main instance load balances between 10 VPS instances.

Regarding usage stats I don't have any accurate numbers, but the database that stores preferences has 30k rows.

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:24:06 +0000

Yes there are various themes to pick from if you go to the settings menu, click the cog icon on the top right

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:08:39 +0000

It essentially emulates browser requests, "unofficial API" is just a fancy term for web scraping + using required parts of the public API where guest tokens work (ie. fetching video info, cards and polls).

New comment by zedeus in "Nitter: Alternative Twitter Front-End"

zedeus — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 12:06:34 +0000

Yes, but I do have some far future plans about utilizing the "Login with Twitter" authentication method to let people use the API on their behalf, which would allow making tweets etc.