Pituicytter

Pituicytter is an open-source software project that provides tools for interacting with a social media platform's API, with a focus on programmatic access to posts, timelines, and user data. It is distributed as a Python library and a command-line interface, enabling developers and researchers to fetch timelines, post updates (where API permissions allow), stream real-time data, and export results.

The project emphasizes ease of use and reliability. Key features include asynchronous I/O for concurrent requests, built-in rate-limit handling to minimize API errors, OAuth-based authentication flows, and a modular architecture that supports multiple API versions or backends. A CLI supplements the library to perform common tasks from the command line, useful for quick data collection or automation scripts.

Pituicytter is implemented in Python and designed to be dependency-light while offering extensibility through plug-ins. It commonly relies on modern libraries for HTTP communication and asynchronous programming and is compatible with Python 3.7 and later. The project is community-maintained, with source code and issue tracking hosted on a public repository under an open-source license.

Usage typically involves installing the package from the public repository, configuring API credentials, and invoking library calls or CLI commands to retrieve user timelines, search for posts, or stream live data. It is widely used in research and data collection, journalism, and hobbyist projects for building data pipelines and analysis workflows.

See also: Twitter API, social media data collection tools, open-source API clients, Python asynchronous programming.