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A script to download all of a user's tweets into a csv
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# encoding: utf-8 | |
import tweepy # https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy | |
import csv | |
import json | |
import sys | |
with open('credentials/twitterCredentials.json', "r") as data_file: | |
data_loaded = json.load(data_file) | |
# Twitter API credentials | |
consumer_key = data_loaded['apiKey'] | |
consumer_secret = data_loaded['apiSecretKey'] | |
access_key = data_loaded['accessToken'] | |
access_secret = data_loaded['accessTokenSecret'] | |
def get_all_tweets(screen_name, outputFormat): | |
# Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method | |
# 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 = [] | |
# make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count) | |
new_tweets = api.user_timeline( | |
screen_name=screen_name, count=200, tweet_mode='extended') | |
# save most recent tweets | |
alltweets.extend(new_tweets) | |
# save the id of the oldest tweet less one | |
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1 | |
# keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab | |
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.user_timeline( | |
screen_name=screen_name, count=200, tweet_mode='extended', max_id=oldest) | |
# save most recent tweets | |
alltweets.extend(new_tweets) | |
# update the id of the oldest tweet less one | |
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1 | |
print("...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))) | |
if outputFormat == 'csv': | |
# transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv | |
outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, | |
tweet.full_text] for tweet in alltweets] | |
# write the csv | |
with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'w') as f: | |
writer = csv.writer(f) | |
writer.writerow(["id", "created_at", "text"]) | |
writer.writerows(outtweets) | |
if outputFormat == 'txt': | |
# transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv | |
outtweets = [[tweet.full_text] for tweet in alltweets] | |
# write the txt | |
with open('%s_tweets.txt' % screen_name, 'w') as f: | |
writer = csv.writer(f) | |
# writer.writerow(["text"]) | |
writer.writerows(outtweets) | |
pass | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
# 1st param for this script: username | |
# 2nd param: the format to save the data, csv or txt typically | |
userParam = 1 | |
outputParam = 2 | |
if sys.argv[outputParam] == 'txt': | |
fileFormat = 'txt' | |
else: | |
fileFormat = 'csv' | |
get_all_tweets(str(sys.argv[userParam]), str(fileFormat)) |
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