Remove failed guest ID experiment

src/api/cookie.nim

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-import httpclient, strutils
-
-proc getGuestId*(): string =
-  let client = newHttpClient()
-  for i in 0 .. 10:
-    try:
-      let req = client.get("https://twitter.com")
-      if "react-root" in req.body: continue
-      for k, v in req.headers:
-        if "guest_id" in v:
-          return v[v.find("=") + 1 .. v.find(";")]
-    except:
-      discard
-    finally:
-      try: client.close()
-      except: discard

src/api/list.nim

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ proc getListMembers*(username, list, after, agent: string): Future[Result[Profil
 
   let
     url = base / (listMembersUrl % [username, list])
-    html = await fetchHtml(url, genHeaders(agent, url, guestId=true))
+    html = await fetchHtml(url, genHeaders(agent, url))
 
   result = Result[Profile](
     minId: html.selectAttr(".stream-container", "data-min-position"),

src/api/profile.nim

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ proc getProfile*(username, agent: string): Future[Profile] {.async.} =
 proc getProfileFull*(username, agent: string): Future[Profile] {.async.} =
   let
     url = base / username
-    headers = genHeaders(agent, url, auth=true, guestId=true)
+    headers = genHeaders(agent, url, auth=true)
     html = await fetchHtml(url, headers)
 
   if html == nil: return

src/api/search.nim

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ proc getSearch*[T](query: Query; after, agent: string;
     encoded = encodeUrl(param, usePlus=false)
 
     referer = base / ("search?f=$1&q=$2&src=typd" % [kind, encoded])
-    headers = genHeaders(agent, referer, auth=true, xml=true, guestId=true)
+    headers = genHeaders(agent, referer, auth=true, xml=true)
 
     params = {
       "f": kind,

src/api/timeline.nim

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ proc getProfileAndTimeline*(username, after, agent: string;
     url = url ? {"max_position": after}
 
   let
-    headers = genHeaders(agent, base / username, auth=true, guestId=true)
+    headers = genHeaders(agent, base / username, auth=true)
     html = await fetchHtml(url, headers)
     timeline = parseTimeline(html.select("#timeline > .stream-container"), after)
     profile = parseTimelineProfile(html)

src/api/tweet.nim

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ proc getTweet*(username, id, after, agent: string): Future[Conversation] {.async
     headers = genHeaders({
       "pragma": "no-cache",
       "x-previous-page-name": "profile"
-    }, agent, base, xml=true, guestId=true)
+    }, agent, base, xml=true)
 
     url = base / username / tweetUrl / id ? {"max_position": after}
     html = await fetchHtml(url, headers)

src/api/utils.nim

@@ -2,13 +2,11 @@ import httpclient, asyncdispatch, htmlparser, options
 import strutils, json, xmltree, uri
 
 import ../types
-import consts, cookie
+import consts
-
-var guestIdCookie = "guest_id=" & getGuestId()
 
 proc genHeaders*(headers: openArray[tuple[key: string, val: string]];
                  agent: string; referer: Uri; lang=true;
-                 auth=false; xml=false; guestId=false): HttpHeaders =
+                 auth=false; xml=false): HttpHeaders =
   result = newHttpHeaders({
     "referer": $referer,
     "user-agent": agent,
@@ -18,14 +16,13 @@ proc genHeaders*(headers: openArray[tuple[key: string, val: string]];
   if auth: result["authority"] = "twitter.com"
   if lang: result["accept-language"] = consts.lang
   if xml:  result["x-requested-with"] = "XMLHttpRequest"
-  # if guestId: result["cookie"] = guestIdCookie
 
   for (key, val) in headers:
     result[key] = val
 
 proc genHeaders*(agent: string; referer: Uri; lang=true;
-                 auth=false; xml=false; guestId=false): HttpHeaders =
+                 auth=false; xml=false): HttpHeaders =
-  genHeaders([], agent, referer, lang, auth, xml, guestId)
+  genHeaders([], agent, referer, lang, auth, xml)
 
 template newClient*() {.dirty.} =
   var client = newAsyncHttpClient()