Jameson Lopp on Nostr: Wasted several hours writing a script to grab data from X's API, paid $200 for a ...
Wasted several hours writing a script to grab data from X's API, paid $200 for a non-hobbled account, only to find that querying data older than 2012 is restricted to approved academic researchers.
Fucking ridiculous given that I can search for the same data via the web client.
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2025-02-23 19:47:54 UTCEvent JSON
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