Get last N tweets from a user.

twitter-query.php

<?php declare(strict_types=1);

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\GuzzleException;
use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;


// ==================== //

$username = '@elonmusk';
$count = 2;
// $count = 40; // default

// ==================== //

// From main.HASH.js bundle
const AUTH = 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs=1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA';
const USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';

$client = new Client([
	RequestOptions::PROXY => '',
]);

// You can refresh these when you get rate-limited
$csrfToken = getCsrf();
$guestToken = getGuestToken($client);

$userId = getUserId($client, $username, $csrfToken, $guestToken);
if($userId === null)
{
	die("Couldn't find user: $username!" . PHP_EOL);
}

$startTime = microtime(true);
$userTweetsBody = getUserTweets($client, $userId, $count, $csrfToken, $guestToken);
$endTime = microtime(true);
// $.data.user.result.timeline_v2.timeline.instructions[1].entries[*].content.itemContent.tweet_results.result.legacy.full_text
$userTweetsBody = $userTweetsBody['data']['user']['result']['timeline_v2']['timeline']['instructions'][1]['entries'];

foreach($userTweetsBody as $entry)
{
	if($entry['content']['entryType'] === 'TimelineTimelineItem')
	{
		echo html_entity_decode($entry['content']['itemContent']['tweet_results']['result']['legacy']['full_text']) . PHP_EOL;
		echo '=====' . PHP_EOL;
	}
}

$totalTime = round(($endTime - $startTime) * 1000);
echo PHP_EOL . "Finished in: {$totalTime}ms" . PHP_EOL;


/**
 * @throws GuzzleException
 * @throws JsonException
 */
function getGuestToken(Client $client)
{
	$resp = $client->post('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/guest/activate.json', [
		RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
			'authorization' => 'Bearer ' . AUTH,
			'user-agent' => USER_AGENT,
		],
	]);
	$body = json_decode($resp->getBody()->getContents(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);

	return $body['guest_token'];
}

/**
 * @throws Exception
 */
function getCsrf(): string
{
	$token = '';
	for($i = 0; $i < 32; $i++)
	{
		$value = random_int(0, 255);
		$token .= substr(dechex($value), -1);
	}

	return $token;
}

/**
 * @throws GuzzleException
 * @throws JsonException
 */
function getUserId(Client $client, string $username, string $csrfToken, string $guestToken): ?string
{
	$username = str_replace('@', '', $username);

	// TODO: Cache
	$variables = json_encode([
		'screen_name' => $username,
		'withSafetyModeUserFields' => false,
		'withSuperFollowsUserFields' => false,
	], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
	$features = json_encode([
		'responsive_web_twitter_blue_verified_badge_is_enabled' => false,
		'verified_phone_label_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_twitter_blue_new_verification_copy_is_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_graphql_timeline_navigation_enabled' => false,
	], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);

	// e.exports = {
	// 	queryId: "0dbpv_sJc_YxCb-1RO2NFA",
	// 	operationName: "UserByScreenName",
	// 	operationType: "query",
	// 	metadata: {
	// 		featureSwitches: ["responsive_web_twitter_blue_verified_badge_is_enabled", "verified_phone_label_enabled", "responsive_web_twitter_blue_new_verification_copy_is_enabled", "responsive_web_graphql_timeline_navigation_enabled"]
	// 	}
	// }
	$resp = $client->get('https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/0dbpv_sJc_YxCb-1RO2NFA/UserByScreenName', [
		RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
			'authorization' => 'Bearer ' . AUTH,
			'cookie' => "ct0=$csrfToken; gt=$guestToken",
			'user-agent' => USER_AGENT,
			'x-csrf-token' => $csrfToken,
			'x-guest-token' => $guestToken,
		],
		RequestOptions::QUERY => [
			'variables' => $variables,
			'features' => $features,
		],
	]);

	$respBody = json_decode($resp->getBody()->getContents(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
	if(count($respBody['data']) > 0)
	{
		return $respBody['data']['user']['result']['rest_id'];
	}

	return null;
}

/**
 * @throws GuzzleException
 * @throws JsonException
 */
function getUserTweets(Client $client, string $userId, int $count, string $csrfToken, string $guestToken): array
{
	// TODO: Cache
	$variables = json_encode([
		'userId' => $userId,
		'count' => $count,
		'includePromotedContent' => false,
		// 'includePromotedContent' => true,
		'withQuickPromoteEligibilityTweetFields' => true,
		'withSuperFollowsUserFields' => true,
		'withDownvotePerspective' => false,
		'withReactionsMetadata' => false,
		'withReactionsPerspective' => false,
		'withSuperFollowsTweetFields' => true,
		'withVoice' => true,
		'withV2Timeline' => true,
	], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
	// $features = '{"responsive_web_twitter_blue_verified_badge_is_enabled":true,"verified_phone_label_enabled":false,"responsive_web_graphql_timeline_navigation_enabled":true,"view_counts_public_visibility_enabled":false,"view_counts_everywhere_api_enabled":false,"tweetypie_unmention_optimization_enabled":true,"responsive_web_uc_gql_enabled":true,"vibe_api_enabled":true,"responsive_web_edit_tweet_api_enabled":true,"graphql_is_translatable_rweb_tweet_is_translatable_enabled":true,"standardized_nudges_misinfo":true,"tweet_with_visibility_results_prefer_gql_limited_actions_policy_enabled":false,"interactive_text_enabled":true,"responsive_web_text_conversations_enabled":false,"responsive_web_enhance_cards_enabled":true}';
	$features = json_encode([
		'responsive_web_twitter_blue_verified_badge_is_enabled' => false,
		'verified_phone_label_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_graphql_timeline_navigation_enabled' => false,
		'view_counts_public_visibility_enabled' => false,
		'view_counts_everywhere_api_enabled' => false,
		'tweetypie_unmention_optimization_enabled' => true,
		'responsive_web_uc_gql_enabled' => false,
		'vibe_api_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_edit_tweet_api_enabled' => false,
		'graphql_is_translatable_rweb_tweet_is_translatable_enabled' => false,
		'standardized_nudges_misinfo' => false,
		'tweet_with_visibility_results_prefer_gql_limited_actions_policy_enabled' => false,
		'interactive_text_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_text_conversations_enabled' => false,
		'responsive_web_enhance_cards_enabled' => false,
	], JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);

	// e.exports = {
	// 	queryId: "zEAmYdYUvRuhrr9zjc5Vvg",
	// 	operationName: "UserTweets",
	// 	operationType: "query",
	// 	metadata: {
	// 		featureSwitches: ["responsive_web_twitter_blue_verified_badge_is_enabled", "verified_phone_label_enabled", "responsive_web_graphql_timeline_navigation_enabled", "view_counts_public_visibility_enabled", "view_counts_everywhere_api_enabled", "tweetypie_unmention_optimization_enabled", "responsive_web_uc_gql_enabled", "vibe_api_enabled", "responsive_web_edit_tweet_api_enabled", "graphql_is_translatable_rweb_tweet_is_translatable_enabled", "standardized_nudges_misinfo", "tweet_with_visibility_results_prefer_gql_limited_actions_policy_enabled", "interactive_text_enabled", "responsive_web_text_conversations_enabled", "responsive_web_enhance_cards_enabled"]
	// 	}
	// }
	$userTweetsResp = $client->get('https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql/zEAmYdYUvRuhrr9zjc5Vvg/UserTweets', [
		RequestOptions::HEADERS => [
			'authorization' => 'Bearer ' . AUTH,
			'cookie' => "ct0=$csrfToken; gt=$guestToken",
			'user-agent' => USER_AGENT,
			'x-csrf-token' => $csrfToken,
			'x-guest-token' => $guestToken,
		],
		RequestOptions::QUERY => [
			'variables' => $variables,
			'features' => $features,
		],
	]);

	return json_decode($userTweetsResp->getBody()->getContents(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
}