napf1.py

c = twitter.cursor(twitter.search, q='#7deSetPelaLiberdade', count=100, result_type='mixed', tweet_mode='extended')
tweets = []
count = 0
n_tweets = 30000
for tweet in c:
    count += 1
    tweets.append(tweet)
    # each 100 tweets requires 1 request
    # sleep after 180 requests
    if count > 0 and count % (180 * 100) == 0:
        print(f'running save iteration {count}')
        df_result = tweets_to_df(tweets)
        print(df_result.shape)
        save_tweets(df_result)
        tweets = []
        print('sleep for 15 min')
        time.sleep(60 * 15)
    if (count > n_tweets):
        df_result = tweets_to_df(tweets)
        print(df_result.shape)
        save_tweets(df_result)
        break