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Get twitter user's photo url's from tweets - download all images from twitter user
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
import csv
import sys
#Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
#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=1)
#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 subsequent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,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))
#go through all found tweets and remove the ones with no images
outtweets = [] #initialize master list to hold our ready tweets
for tweet in alltweets:
#not all tweets will have media url, so lets skip them
try:
print tweet.entities['media'][0]['media_url']
except (NameError, KeyError):
#we dont want to have any entries without the media_url so lets do nothing
pass
else:
#got media_url - means add it to the output
outtweets.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8"), tweet.entities['media'][0]['media_url']])
#write the csv
with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'wb') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text","media_url"])
writer.writerows(outtweets)
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
#pass in the username of the account you want to download
get_all_tweets("WansteadWomble")
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Now I am getting this error:
AttributeError: 'Status' object has no attribute 'entities'
Has there being a change in the API or something?

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remmark commented May 8, 2021

then you just download all of them with your favourite downloader... for example:
wget -i filename.csv

Where and how to write the command "wget -i '% s_tweets.csv'" to download a picture?

I'm a newbie. Does not work.

Thanks in advance

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remmark commented May 9, 2021

My edits in the code, downloads images :

#!/usr/bin/env python 3
# encoding: utf-8

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


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


def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
        #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=1)

        #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 получаем перед %s" % (oldest))

                #all subsequent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
                new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,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 загружены на данный момент" % (len(alltweets)))

        #go through all found tweets and remove the ones with no images 
        outtweets = [] #initialize master list to hold our ready tweets
        for tweet in alltweets:
                #not all tweets will have media url, so lets skip them
                try:
                        print (tweet.entities['media'][0]['media_url'])
                        wget.download(tweet.entities['media'][0]['media_url'])
                except (NameError, KeyError):
                        #we dont want to have any entries without the media_url so lets do nothing
                        pass
                else:
                        #got media_url - means add it to the output
                        outtweets.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text, tweet.entities['media'][0]['media_url']])

        #write the csv  
        with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
                writer = csv.writer(f)
                writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text","media_url"])
                writer.writerows(outtweets)
                

        pass


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

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