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Download images (JPG, PNG) from tweets
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download-tweet-media.py
import wget
from os.path import join as pjoin
OUTPUT_DIR = 'tweet-imgs'
media_tweets = [tweet for tweet in tweets if 'media' in tweet['entities']]
for tweet in media_tweets:
for i, media in enumerate(tweet['entities']['media']):
url = media['media_url']
extension = url.split('.')[-1]
assert extension in ['jpg', 'png']
output_file = f"{tweet['user']['name']}-{tweet['id']}-{i}.{extension}"
wget.download(url, out=pjoin(OUTPUT_DIR, output_file))
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