Have you considered sending that person a message and saying "Hey I'd like to use your artwork for a personal project of mine would you possibly be willing to provide me with a zip file containing anything youre willing to share?" or something like that.
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I hadn't considered that, no. Practically I think it'd be more effort for both me and the artist to do that than for me to just download all of their artworks with some tool. If you're asking because you think I should get their consent for using it, I would totally agree if it was a publicly broadcast game or something that their art was being used in, but just in a game between my friends I don't think it's necessary.
So i do think its good to get consent but i didnt suggest that for this reason. If someones posting specific things on twitter they know theyll be scraped and are kind of implicitly allowing those specific works to be used for free by people.
This though would potentially allow you to get access to more stuff that isnt posted publicly, and would also allow the artist to know someone likes their work enough to do this. Maybe they'd even want to play the game with you.
As for difficulty most artists have their works saved and all they'd have to do is share a google drive folder or something and have you download it. Super easy.
Also its just like... talking to people is good yknow? I mean this is someone whose work you like, and the internet makes things so impersonal already. Starting a discussion, and getting to know someone with similar tastes just seems like a net positive. A wasted opportunity for a potential friend if you dont atleast try imo. But ultimately its up to you what you do.
That's a good point. I think I will give them a message later. Thanks for the advice!
What if they point you to a different site with their art that is easier to scrape?
They might appreciate hearing from someone who likes their work.
I have done it with selenium but it was a pain in the ass
generally, i would start with this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=scrape+twitter+github
and probably find some python project that’s been updated recently
If you host an instance of nitter locally, you can scrape it. There's a package that I'll link when I get a chance. However, this possibly puts the Twitter account you use at risk of a ban, haven't tried it enough to find out.