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You say "maybe they have a reason for not providing everything" - I cannot think of a reason not to provide me with API access to my own private bookmarks other than "we decided to invest our engineering resources elsewhere".

Which isn't a bad reason! But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.



> But it's not a good argument for people not to scrape their own data.

Why would you want to scrape your own data if you an already request all your data and get a whole archive? https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...


Because then you have to trigger and download a GB+ file every time you want to programmatically access your latest bookmarks.


Everything Twitter used to and not anymore enable third party profit off “their valuable” data. It’s economically/strategically unsustainable or so they think.




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