> Why would my IP get banned - the API allows developers to retrieve
> almost every piece of data from user's twitter profiles so developers
> don't need to scrape. I think if it's a closed site and they want to
> protect content, then I can understand IP banning but if it's an open
> system like Twitter, I don't see any reason why my IP would get
> banned.
>
> Maybe someone from the Twitter Platform team can chime in, especially
> since I only scrape for list counts every 4-6 hours on a small set of
> users for my application.
That's probably why they haven't noticed you (yet). However, screen
scraping gets around rate limiting and other controls Twitter places on
the API. That's not exactly considered socially agreeable, and it's not
fair on other API consumers. It's also against TOS.
https://twitter.com/tos
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