Curating the Best Twitter Feed: Christmas Pets Edition
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A small site called Petmas scrapes Christmas-themed cat and dog tweets using Twitter API + Selenium, converts tweet URLs into publish.twitter.com HTML blocks, and stores them in Azure SQL provisioned with Terraform for Azure SQL Server. The scraper hits the 7‑day search window and rate limits but still harvests about 700 rendered tweets (and reports of hundreds of thousands of links during full runs), serves them from a Flask VM, and wins a hackathon prize.
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