feat: Added choices for headless yes or no, along with user-agent related changes. (#27 from ReptilianPride/browser-options-update)

Added choices for headless yes or no, along with user-agent related changes.

.env.example

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 TWITTER_USERNAME=# Your Twitter Handle
 TWITTER_PASSWORD=# Your Twitter Password
+HEADLESS=# Headless browser option (use "yes" or "no")

sample-command.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+python scraper --query='("NVDA" OR "nvidia") lang:en until:2024-01-19 since:2024-01-18' -t 5000 --top

scraper/__main__.py

@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ def main():
                 default=os.getenv("TWITTER_PASSWORD"),
                 help="Your Twitter password.",
             )
+
+            parser.add_argument(
+                "--headlessState",
+                type=str,
+                default=os.getenv("HEADLESS"),
+                help="Headless mode? [yes/no]"
+            )
         except Exception as e:
             print(f"Error retrieving environment variables: {e}")
             sys.exit(1)
@@ -113,6 +120,7 @@ def main():
         USER_MAIL = args.mail
         USER_UNAME = args.user
         USER_PASSWORD = args.password
+        HEADLESS_MODE= args.headlessState
 
         if USER_UNAME is None:
             USER_UNAME = input("Twitter Username: ")
@@ -120,6 +128,9 @@ def main():
         if USER_PASSWORD is None:
             USER_PASSWORD = getpass.getpass("Enter Password: ")
 
+        if HEADLESS_MODE is None:
+            HEADLESS_MODE - str(input("Headless?[Yes/No]")).lower()
+
         print()
 
         tweet_type_args = []
@@ -146,6 +157,7 @@ def main():
                 mail=USER_MAIL,
                 username=USER_UNAME,
                 password=USER_PASSWORD,
+                headlessState=HEADLESS_MODE
             )
             scraper.login()
             scraper.scrape_tweets(

scraper/scroller.py

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+import time
+import random
+
+
 class Scroller:
     def __init__(self, driver) -> None:
         self.driver = driver

scraper/twitter_scraper.py

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class Twitter_Scraper:
         mail,
         username,
         password,
+        headlessState,
         max_tweets=50,
         scrape_username=None,
         scrape_hashtag=None,
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ class Twitter_Scraper:
         self.mail = mail
         self.username = username
         self.password = password
+        self.headlessState = headlessState
         self.interrupted = False
         self.tweet_ids = set()
         self.data = []
@@ -125,7 +127,10 @@ class Twitter_Scraper:
         proxy=None,
     ):
         print("Setup WebDriver...")
-        header = Headers().generate()["User-Agent"]
+        # header = Headers().generate()["User-Agent"] 
+
+        # User agent of a andoird smartphone device
+        header="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; SM-G998B) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.87 Mobile Safari/537.36"
 
         # browser_option = ChromeOptions()
         browser_option = FirefoxOptions()
@@ -140,6 +145,9 @@ class Twitter_Scraper:
         if proxy is not None:
             browser_option.add_argument("--proxy-server=%s" % proxy)
 
+        # Option to hide browser or not
+        # If not yes then skips the headless
+        if self.headlessState == 'yes':
             # For Hiding Browser
             browser_option.add_argument("--headless")
 
@@ -191,6 +199,7 @@ class Twitter_Scraper:
 
         try:
             self.driver.maximize_window()
+            self.driver.execute_script("document.body.style.zoom='150%'") #set zoom to 150%
             self.driver.get(TWITTER_LOGIN_URL)
             sleep(3)
 
@@ -490,7 +499,7 @@ It may be due to the following:
                             retry_button = self.driver.find_element(
                             "xpath", "//span[text()='Retry']/../../..")
                             self.progress.print_progress(len(self.data), True, retry_cnt, no_tweets_limit)
-                            sleep(58)
+                            sleep(600)
                             retry_button.click()
                             retry_cnt += 1
                             sleep(2)