v. 1.0 beta
THIS CODE IS OUTDATED
and apparently the test fails.
I have no time to fix it, and you may look at source to implement your Checker.
This is a simple and quick webapp that crawls Twitter's search page to discover if a particular user has been shadowbanned. Since the method is based on a 3rd party web page scan, it's not 100% reliable.
It should also be said that Twitter does not mention the practice of shadowbanning users anywhere. Nonetheless, some users do not appear in search results and their interactions are not notified to other users. Many people think this is an obscure issue and that it should be reported.
A sample working installation is available at this web address: http://shadownban-checker.xho.bedita.net.
- If you don't know what a shadowban is, a web browser and a search engine are all you need.
- If you think this app should have been done better, do it.
Informations about shadowbanning are not exposed on Twitter's public API. For this reason this app crawls and directly scans the search page on Twitter's web site, like a person, to discover if user's tweets are displayed. To avoid problems with CORS a very simple php proxy is used.
This application is under MIT license with an addendum (see below)
Copyright (C) 2016
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. __
Addendum Except as contained in this notice, the whole application and the name of Christiano Presutti (@xho) shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the author.