Tweet Harvest (Twitter Crawler)

Tweet Harvest is an active command-line interface (CLI) tool designed for scraping tweets from Twitter search results. Utilizing Playwright, it automates browser interactions to retrieve data based on specified keywords and date ranges, exporting the results to CSV or XLSX formats. The current stable version is 2.7.1, with frequent minor releases addressing bug fixes, performance improvements, and new export functionalities (e.g., XLSX export in v2.7.0). A key differentiator is its reliance on a valid Twitter `auth_token` cookie for authentication, as Twitter prohibits unauthenticated search. While primarily a CLI, it also exposes programmatic APIs for integration into Node.js applications, offering functions to initiate the scraping process and process tweet data. Its continuous updates ensure compatibility with Twitter's evolving interface and provide enhanced data quality features like ISO 8601 timestamps.