Feature Request: Support for Twitter/X Rate limit

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Alve
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Feature Request: Support for Twitter/X Rate limit

Post by Alve »

I'd like to request new feature for Extreme Picture Finder: support for rate limits. Currently Twitter restricts viewing and API access per day, making it difficult to download all the media. Updating the project doesn't help.

would it be possible to implement a feature that:
1. Detects rate limits and pauses/resumes downloads accordingly?
2. Allows users to customize request intervals to avoid hitting the limit?
3. Supports authentication for better access limits (e.g. using logged-incookies or API tokens)?
Maksym
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Re: Feature Request: Support for Twitter/X Rate limit

Post by Maksym »

I'd like to request new feature for Extreme Picture Finder: support for rate limits. Currently Twitter restricts viewing and API access per day, making it difficult to download all the media. Updating the project doesn't help.
Yes, they do limit things for some reason :(
1. Detects rate limits and pauses/resumes downloads accordingly?
How does one do that? I mean not even from a software point of view? How to see those limits? Is there a documentation for that somewhere?
2. Allows users to customize request intervals to avoid hitting the limit?
You can do that in the project properties, [ Site exploration - Options ] section, [ Delay between downloads ]:

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3. Supports authentication for better access limits (e.g. using logged-incookies or API tokens)?
You are supposed to sign in to your x.com account in the built-in browser before clicking the [ Continue download ] button. After that Extreme Picture Finder uses both cookies and API tokens from the built-in browser, so the authentication is supported.
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