ExtractTweets.py

import glob
import pathlib
import os
import json

#Make sure we're in the same dir that has the downloaded JSON twitter data
os.chdir('/home/username/twitter_data')

tweets = []

for file in glob.glob('*.json'):
    with open(file) as json_data:
        data = json.load(json_data)
        for tweet in data:
            tweets.append(tweet)
        
#Show how many tweets we've got
print(len(tweets))