Script that searches tweets written in Greek and containing specific hashtags relevant to the recent wildfires in Greece. Also outputs twitter profiles created during the last few days just to tweet those tweets [Info & context here: https://www.facebook.com/f.tselai/posts/1981587568532277 ]

foties_tweets.py

import tweepy

from datetime import datetime

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler('CONSUMER_KEY', 'CONSUMER_SECRET')
auth.set_access_token('ACCESS_TOKEN', 'ACCESS_SECRET')

api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)

def parse_ts(ts):
    return datetime.strptime(ts,'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y')
  
tweets = []
recent_profiles = {} # created after July 23th 2018
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,
                            q="#skai_xeftiles OR #skai_kseftiles OR #nd_xeftiles OR #nd_kseftiles OR #skaNDala",
                           count=1000,
                           lang="el",
                           since="2018-07-20"
                          ).items():
    tweet_data = (tweet._json['user']['screen_name'], tweet._json['user']['created_at'], tweet.text, tweet.created_at, tweet)
    tweets.append(tweet)
        
    if parse_ts(tweet._json['user']['created_at']) >= datetime(2018, 7, 23):
        recent_profiles[tweet._json['user']['screen_name']] = tweet._json['user']['created_at']
    
    if len(tweets) % 500 == 0:
        print("%d tweets" % len(tweets))
        print("%d recent profiles" % len(recent_profiles))
        for screen_name, created_at in recent_profiles.items():
            print((created_at, 'https://twitter.com/' + screen_name))
            
import pytz
for screen_name, created_at in recent_profiles.items():
            print(('https://twitter.com/' + screen_name, parse_ts(created_at).replace(tzinfo=pytz.timezone('Europe/Athens')).isoformat()))