Pál Briák
Company Owner at Best-Online Kft
Hungary
Summary
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RockstarPál Briák is an entrepreneurial technology leader and company owner with 13 years of software and management experience based in Hungary. As founder and manager of Best-Online Kft and managing director at Glass Mechanix Distributor, he blends hands-on backend development with long-running operational leadership. His open-source contributions include meaningful improvements to the popular GetOldTweets-python project, where he fixed API interactions and improved UTF-8 batch exports to reliably retrieve historical Twitter data. Comfortable bridging technical detail and business needs, he has a track record of resolving integration issues and optimizing data workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers durable, maintainable fixes over quick patches.
13 years of coding experience
English
Github Skills (9)
data-extraction10
apim10
api10
python10
webscraping10
twitter-api10
data-format9
formatting9
data-formats9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python
Jan 2016 - May 2018
A project written in Python to get old tweets, it bypass some limitations of Twitter Official API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pál primarily worked on enhancing the `getoldtweets-python` project, which is designed to retrieve historical tweets. Their contributions involved modifying the core Python code to interact with the Twitter API. They addressed issues such as fixing attribute names and refining the code to successfully retrieve tweets. The user also made changes to the exporting functionality, ensuring a UTF-8 output and optimizing the process to save results in batches.
twitter-botapipythonold-tweetsbypass
Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-java
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 38 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
apiold-tweetsbypasstwitter-apitwitter
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