What does HackerNews think of nitter?

Alternative Twitter front-end

Language: Nim

#1 in Nim
#2 in Twitter
Ask HN: What is nitter and why does it still work? | Sep 2023
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/

I think it uses the same functionality as the guest account feature in the Android app as of now.

Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on | Aug 2023
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Yeah or use "unofficial apis" e.g. Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter)
Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples | Aug 2023
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Also, you can host your own private nitter instance and follow accounts using rss.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Nim 2.0 | Aug 2023
Nitter (Twitter frontend) is written in Nim: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/
Tell HN: Teddit has been de facto shut down | Jul 2023
My private instance still works great. It's pretty easy to run your own: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

My private Nitter instance is also working again after the latest set of changes: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Twitter preventing viewing without logging in | Jun 2023
Try nitter.net:

"Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter"

No need to sign-in to view Twitter.

Instances: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think | May 2023
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Aren't most HNers using Nitter? https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31 | Mar 2023
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https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day | Feb 2023
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Not necessarily. There are so many ways to obfuscate it and generally public facing graphql endpoints have introspection and all of those convenience features disabled.

To add, Twitter's backend has a bunch of layers on top of it. I did a bit of reverse engineering for my blog article on scraping Twitter [1] and there's a bit of magic token/header generation involved.

Good resource if you'd like to learn more about how the whole backend works is Nitter [2] which implements most graphql functions in Nim (it's very readable even if you don't know Nim).

1 - https://scrapfly.io/blog/how-to-scrape-twitter/#scraping-pro...

2 - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API | Feb 2023
Does Nitter use the API?

> Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)[0]

Not sure what that means

0. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Twitter's API is down? | Jan 2023
Nitter[0][1] (which does not use the official API) still works.

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

GPTZero – an app to tell if an essay is written by ChatGPT | Jan 2023
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Just replace 'twitter.com' with 'nitter.net' in URL. Nitter is Twitter alternative frontend. [1]

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Kagi – Paid Search Engine | Dec 2022
I've paid and used Kagi for about six months. I used DDG for a while, but I found myself putting !g after every query (especially when looking for answers relating to programming). With Kagi I very, very rarely need to use Google.

It has some nice features, like lenses, URL rewriting, and the ability to bump sites to the top.

I have a lens for programming. It shows only certain sites, like GitHub and Stack Exchange, and I enable it when appropriate.

For URL rewriting, I have Kagi set to rewrite URLs from Twitter and Reddit to my own self-hosted instances of Nitter [0] and Teddit [1], so that when I open a Kagi result that would've gone to twitter.com, it goes to nitter.mydomain.com, which lets me use Twitter without an account.

Lastly, I use the site bumping feature to move Wikipedia results to the top.

[0]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[1]: https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

A Cost Model for Nim | Nov 2022
A well-known and nice app that is build with Nim is Nitter (https://github.com/zedeus/nitter), a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance.
Elon's first big move: pay to remain verified on Twitter | Oct 2022
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For those who don't know: Nitter is an alternative self-hosted Twitter client.

One public instance: https://nitter.kavin.rocks/

Github repository: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Stop Writing Twitter Threads | Oct 2022
Use nitter, one frontend at https://nitter.net/. Project at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Use https://threadreaderapp.com/