I am planning to create an academic paper and I need to scrape data from Twitter. However, I am unsure of the authenticity of the data gathered through snscrape and can't afford to pay Twitter API. Is snscrape a valid data-gathering method? What other options can I have?
I tried snscrape but I am unsure of its authenticity. I also tried tweepy but it need authenthication key but I can't afford it.
I already used SnScrape to extract tweets for a paper. It was a good scrapper, the only downside was the inability to extract native retweets. But SnScrappe is not working because of Twitter blocks. Currently is not possible to search tweets without a login. As one can see here: https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape/issues/996