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Using the t and csvkit to quickly collect and analyze #migrahack tweets from the command-line

The t command-line Twitter tool is a great way to work with Twitter information in a spreadsheet.

Its homepage with good installation instructions is here:

https://github.com/sferik/t

And I've written some related instructions about how to get an authentication token from Twitter:

luciovilla

gifify() {
  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then
      ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png
      time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png  GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif
      rm out-static*.png
    else
      ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif
    fi
  else

luciovilla

all: results.csv

results.csv: scrape.py
	python $< > $@.tmp
	mv $@.tmp $@

clean:
	-rm -f results.csv

.PHONY : clean