list tweet dumper - get word of tweets of the timeline of a list.

list_tweet_dumper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
#list_tweet_dumper - get word of tweets of the timeline of a list.

import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
import csv

#Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""

#name of user & slug name of list
user_name = "Yoxem" #example
list_slug_name = "Holo" #example

def get_all_tweets(screen_name):	
	#authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
	auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
	api = tweepy.API(auth)
	
	#initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
	alltweets = []	
	
	new_tweets = api.list_timeline(user_name, list_slug_name)
        i = 1
        for tweet in new_tweets:
            print i
            print tweet.text
            i += 1

	#save most recent tweets
        alltweets.extend(new_tweets)

        #save the id of the oldest tweet less one
	oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
        print oldest

	while len(new_tweets) > 0:
		print "getting tweets before %s" % (oldest)
		
		#all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
		new_tweets =  api.list_timeline(user_name, list_slug_name, max_id=oldest)

                for tweet in new_tweets:
                    print i
                    print tweet.text
                    i += 1
		#save most recent tweets
		alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
		
		#update the id of the oldest tweet less one
		oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
		print oldest

		print "...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))
	
	#transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv	
        print "Ok."
	outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")] for tweet in alltweets]
	
	#write the csv	
	with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'wb') as f:
		writer = csv.writer(f)
		writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"])
		writer.writerows(outtweets)
	
	pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
	#pass in the username of the account you want to download
	get_all_tweets("Yoxem")