Search for a Users Tweet on twitter

search_user.py

import tweepy

from custom_config import get_attr_from_list
from custom_config import consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_key, access_secret


def write_tweets_to_file(screen_name):
    ids = []
    x = 1
    with open(screen_name.strip() + '.csv', 'w') as file:
        file.write("created_at|url|author|hashtags|user_mentions|text\n")
        for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, screen_name=screen_name).items():
            line = ('%s | %s |  %s | %s | %s | %s' % (tweet.created_at,
                                                      'https://twitter.com/statuses/' + str(tweet.id),
                                                      '@' + tweet.author.screen_name,
                                                      get_attr_from_list(tweet.entities['hashtags'], 'text'),
                                                      get_attr_from_list(tweet.entities['user_mentions'],
                                                                         'screen_name'),
                                                      tweet.text.replace('\n', "")  # don't want new lines on csv
                                                      ))
            ids.append((tweet.id, tweet.created_at))
            print("%d. %s" % (x, line))
            file.write(line + "\n")
            x += 1

    return ids


if __name__ == '__main__':

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)

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

    with open('screen_names.txt', 'r') as input:
        for screen_name in input:
            write_tweets_to_file(screen_name)