Twitter API - request tweets of a user

app.py

import twitter, re, datetime, pandas as pd

class Twitter_Miner():
    request_limit = 20    
    api = False
    data = []
    
    twitter_keys = {
        'consumer_key': '',
        'consumer_secret': '',
        'access_token_key': '',
        'access_token_secret': ''
    }
    
    def __init__(self,  request_limit = 20):
        self.request_limit = request_limit
        self.set_api()
        
    def set_api(self):        
        self.api = twitter.Api(
            consumer_key = self.twitter_keys['consumer_key'],
            consumer_secret = self.twitter_keys['consumer_secret'],
            access_token_key = self.twitter_keys['access_token_key'],
            access_token_secret = self.twitter_keys['access_token_secret']
        )

    def mine_user_tweets(self, user, mine_retweets=False):
        statuses = self.api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=self.request_limit)
        data = []
        
        for item in statuses:
            mined = {
                'tweet_id': item.id,
                'handle': item.user.name,
                'retweet_count': item.retweet_count,
                'text': item.text,
                'mined_at': datetime.datetime.now(),
                'created_at': item.created_at,
            }
            
            data.append(mined)
            
        return data

miner = Twitter_Miner()

flutter_tweets = miner.mine_user_tweets('FlutterDev')
flutter_df = pd.DataFrame(flutter_tweets)
flutter_df.to_csv('flutter_dev.csv')