Example script to create a dynamic network gexf file for Gephi from a jsonl file Article: https://lucahammer.com/?p=367

retweetnetwork.py

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'''

'''
Example script to create a dynamic network gexf file for Gephi from a jsonl file
Article: https://lucahammer.com/?p=367

To use this script, change the constants (UPPERCASE variables) to your needs,
and run it. For example in your CLI by executing: "python retweetnetwork.py".
'''

# name of the file with the Tweet objects
JSONL_FILE = 'twitter_premium_api_demo.jsonl'

# name of the file that will be created/overwritten by the script
GEXF_FILE = 'demo_network.gexf'

#--------------------------- STOP -------------------------------#
# Don't edit anything below, if you don't know what you are doing.
#--------------------------- STOP -------------------------------#

import json_lines

def load_jsonl(file):
    tweets = []
    with open(file, 'rb') as f:
        for tweet in json_lines.reader(f, broken=True):
            reduced_tweet = {
                'created_at': tweet['created_at'],
                'id': tweet['id_str'],
                'username': tweet['user']['screen_name'],
                'user_joined': tweet['user']['created_at'][-4:],
                'user_id': tweet['user']['id_str'],
            }

            if 'derived' in tweet['user']:
                reduced_tweet['country'] = tweet['user']['derived']['locations'][0]['country'] \
                    if 'locations' in tweet['user']['derived'] else ""
                reduced_tweet['region'] = tweet['user']['derived']['locations'][0]['region'] \
                    if 'region' in tweet['user']['derived']['locations'][0] else ""

            if 'retweeted_status' in tweet:
                reduced_tweet['retweeted_user'] = {
                    'user_id': tweet['retweeted_status']['user']['id_str'],
                    'username': tweet['retweeted_status']['user']['screen_name'],
                    'user_joined': tweet['retweeted_status']['user']['created_at'][-4:]
                }

            tweets.append(reduced_tweet)
    return (tweets)
    
tweets = load_jsonl(JSONL_FILE)

import datetime
import lxml.etree as etree

def create_gexf(tweets, filename):
    attr_qname = etree.QName(
        "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "schemaLocation")

    gexf = etree.Element('gexf',
                         {attr_qname: 'http://www.gexf.net/1.3draft  http://www.gexf.net/1.3draft/gexf.xsd'},
                         nsmap={
                             None: 'http://graphml.graphdrawing.org/xmlns/graphml'},
                         version='1.3')

    graph = etree.SubElement(gexf,
                             'graph',
                             defaultedgetype='directed',
                             mode='dynamic',
                             timeformat='datetime')
    attributes = etree.SubElement(
        graph, 'attributes', {'class': 'node', 'mode': 'static'})
    etree.SubElement(attributes, 'attribute', {
                     'id': 'country', 'title': 'country', 'type': 'string'})
    etree.SubElement(attributes, 'attribute', {
                     'id': 'region', 'title': 'region', 'type': 'string'})
    etree.SubElement(attributes, 'attribute', {
                     'id': 'year', 'title': 'year', 'type': 'integer'})

    nodes = etree.SubElement(graph, 'nodes')
    edges = etree.SubElement(graph, 'edges')

    for tweet in reversed(tweets):
        node = etree.SubElement(nodes,
                                'node',
                                id=tweet['user_id'],
                                Label=tweet['username'],
                                start=datetime.datetime.strptime(tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y').isoformat(
                                    timespec='seconds'),  # Fri Jul 27 07:52:57 +0000 2018
                                end=(datetime.datetime.strptime(
                                    tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y') + datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)).isoformat(timespec='seconds')
                                )
        attvalues = etree.SubElement(node, 'attvalues')
        etree.SubElement(attvalues,
                         'attvalue',
                         {'for': 'year',
                          'value': tweet['user_joined']
                          }
                         )
        if 'region' in tweet:
            etree.SubElement(attvalues,
                             'attvalue',
                             {'for': 'region',
                              'value': tweet['region']
                              }
                             )
        if 'country' in tweet:
            etree.SubElement(attvalues,
                             'attvalue',
                             {'for': 'country',
                              'value': tweet[country']
                              }
                             )
        if 'retweeted_user' in tweet:
            etree.SubElement(edges,
                             'edge',
                             {'id': tweet['id'],
                              'source': tweet['retweeted_user']['user_id'],
                              'target': tweet['user_id'],
                              # Fri Jul 27 07:52:57 +0000 2018
                              'start': datetime.datetime.strptime(tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y').isoformat(timespec='seconds'),
                              'end': (datetime.datetime.strptime(tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y') + datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)).isoformat(timespec='seconds')
                              }
                             )
            node = etree.SubElement(nodes,
                                    'node',
                                    id=tweet['retweeted_user']['user_id'],
                                    Label=tweet['retweeted_user']['username'],
                                    start=datetime.datetime.strptime(tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y').isoformat(
                                        timespec='seconds'),  # Fri Jul 27 07:52:57 +0000 2018
                                    end=(datetime.datetime.strptime(
                                        tweet['created_at'], '%a %b %d %X %z %Y') + datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)).isoformat(timespec='seconds')
                                    )
            attvalues = etree.SubElement(node, 'attvalues')
            etree.SubElement(attvalues,
                             'attvalue',
                             {'for': 'year',
                              'value': tweet['retweeted_user']['user_joined']
                              }
                             )

    with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8')as f:
        f.write(etree.tostring(gexf, encoding='utf8',
                               method='xml').decode('utf-8'))
    print('Created gexf.')


create_gexf(tweets, GEXF_FILE)

line 129 should be changed to:
if 'country' in tweet: etree.SubElement(attvalues, 'attvalue', {'for': 'country', 'value': tweet['country'] } )