A script to download all of a user's tweets into a csv

tweet_dumper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import tweepy
import csv

def get_all_tweets(screen_name):

	consumer_key = ""
	consumer_secret = ""
	access_key = ""
	access_secret = ""

	#authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
	auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
	api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit=True)

	#initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets & list with no retweets
	alltweets = []
	noRT = []

	#make initial request for most recent tweets with extended mode enabled to get full tweets
	new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name, tweet_mode = 'extended', count=200)

	#save most recent tweets
	alltweets.extend(new_tweets)

	#save the id of the oldest tweet less one
	oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1

	#keep grabbing tweets until the api limit is reached
	while len(alltweets) <= 3200:
		print("getting tweets before {}".format(oldest))

		#all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
		new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,tweet_mode = 'extended', count=200,max_id=oldest)

		#save most recent tweets
		alltweets.extend(new_tweets)

		#update the id of the oldest tweet less one
		oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1

		print("...{} tweets downloaded so far".format(len(alltweets)))

		#removes retweets
	for tweet in alltweets:
		if 'RT' in tweet.full_text:
			continue
		else:
			noRT.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.full_text])

	#write to csv
	with open('{}_tweets.csv'.format(screen_name), 'w') as f:
		writer = csv.writer(f)
		writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"])
		writer.writerows(noRT)
		print('{}_tweets.csv was successfully created.'.format(screen_name))
	pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
	#pass in the username of the account you want to download
	get_all_tweets("realDonaldTrump")

Hi there

Thanks for creating this. Am completely new to Github and coding - apologies if this is a really simple/trivial question...
I have copied the script above, replaced with my specific search all the instances of eg realDonaldTrump and screen_name on lines 7, 24, 54, and 59.

Am a Mac user. Do I now simply copy this script into 'Terminal', or does it go somewhere else, or... ?

And have I missed anything else vital please?

Thanks very much!

Hi,
I'm getting this error:

`Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/tweepy/parsers.py", line 48, in parse
json = json_lib.loads(payload)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/init.py", line 348, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 337, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/json/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 643951 (char 643950)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "PycharmProjects/The Project/_test_2.py", line 65, in
get_all_tweets("realDonaldTrump")
File "PycharmProjects/The Project/_test_2.py", line 24, in get_all_tweets
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=screen_name, tweet_mode='extended', count=200)
File "Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 250, in _call
return method.execute()
File "Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 236, in execute
result = self.parser.parse(self, resp.text)
File "Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/tweepy/parsers.py", line 91, in parse
json = JSONParser.parse(self, method, payload)
File "Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages/tweepy/parsers.py", line 50, in parse
raise TweepError('Failed to parse JSON payload: %s' % e)
tweepy.error.TweepError: Failed to parse JSON payload: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 643951 (char 643950)`

Do you have any idea how to fix this?