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import requests
import pandas as pd
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
import json
import datetime
from pymongo import MongoClient
import pymongo
INIT_URL = 'https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q={q}&l={lang}'
RELOAD_URL = 'https://twitter.com/i/search/timeline?f=tweets&vertical=' \
'default&include_available_features=1&include_entities=1&' \
'reset_error_state=false&src=typd&max_position={pos}&q={q}&l={lang}'
lang = 'en'
myUa = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/72.0.3626.121 Safari/537.36'
HEADER = {'User-Agent': myUa}
i = 0
def writeTweets(tweets, collection):
newTweetRecords = []
for tweet in tweets:
try:
if tweet.find("a", {"class" : "js-action-profile-promoted"}):
continue
text = tweet.find("p", {"class" : "tweet-text"}).get_text()
date = tweet.find("span", {"class" : "_timestamp"})["data-time-ms"]
tweetId = tweet['data-item-id']
replyCount = tweetMetadata(tweet, "ProfileTweet-action--reply")
retweetCount = tweetMetadata(tweet, "ProfileTweet-action--retweet")
favoriteCount = tweetMetadata(tweet, "ProfileTweet-action--favorite")
verified = False
if tweet.find("span", {"class" : "Icon--verified"}) != None:
verified = True
tweetRecord = {"text" : text, "date" : date, "tweetId" : tweetId,
"replyCount": replyCount, "retweetCount": retweetCount,
"favoriteCount": favoriteCount, "verified" : verified}
newTweetRecords.append(tweetRecord)
except:
print("Unable to process tweet")
try:
result = collection.insert_many(newTweetRecords, ordered=False)
i += len(newTweetRecords)
except pymongo.errors.BulkWriteError as e:
panic = list(filter(lambda x: x['code'] != 11000, e.details['writeErrors']))
if len(panic) > 0:
print(e)
def tweetMetadata(tweet, divClass):
dataBlock = tweet.find("div", {"class": divClass})
data = dataBlock.find("span", {"class" : "ProfileTweet-actionCountForPresentation"}).get_text()
if data == '':
data = 0
else:
data = int(data)
return data
def generateQuery(keywords, since, until):
query = '{} since:{} until:{}'.format(keywords, since, until)
query = query.replace(' ', '%20').replace('#', '%23').replace(':', '%3A')
return query
def executeQuery(keywords, since, until, collection):
query = generateQuery(keywords, since, until)
url = INIT_URL.format(q=query, lang=lang)
response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADER)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml')
tweets = soup.find_all("li", {"data-item-type": "tweet"})
writeTweets(tweets, collection)
next_pointer = soup.find("div", {"class": "stream-container"})["data-min-position"]
counter = 0
for i in range(10000):
#time.sleep(1)
url = RELOAD_URL.format(q=query, lang=lang, pos = next_pointer)
if response.status_code != 200:
print(response.status_code)
response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADER)
try:
json_resp = json.loads(response.text)
except:
print("Unable to process json response")
print(response.text)
return
html = json_resp['items_html']
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
tweets = soup.find_all("li", {"data-item-type": "tweet"})
if len(tweets) == 0:
print(soup)
return
writeTweets(tweets, collection)
if (not json_resp['has_more_items']) and (json_resp["new_latent_count"] == 0):
break
next_pointer = json_resp['min_position']
def main():
client = MongoClient('mongodb://mongodb:27017', username='<username>', password='<password>', authSource='admin')
tweetCol = client['twitter']['tweets']
todoCol = client['twitter']['queriesTodo']
currentQuery = todoCol.find_one_and_delete({})
while currentQuery != None:
print(currentQuery)
executeQuery(currentQuery["qWords"], currentQuery["since"], currentQuery["until"], tweetCol)
print({"since" : currentQuery["since"], "records" : i })
i = 0
currentQuery = todoCol.find_one_and_delete({})
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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