A Python 3.+ 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")

What are the steps once the script is downloaded?

To install, add users and run?

Thank you!

@jose46moreno

1. Add your twitter credentials to the start of the script (you need to sign up for a free twitter developer account to get these, plenty of videos on youtube if your stuck)

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

2. Make sure you have tweepy module installed. You can install this from the command line using pip3 install tweepy

3. Pass users screen name into the get_all_tweets function at the end of the script

4. Run script python3 tweet_dumper.py

The terminal keeps repeating itself on a loop:

...759 tweets downloaded so far
getting tweets before 102157671012106240
...759 tweets downloaded so far
getting tweets before 102157671012106240

Does the account you are trying to download from only have 759 tweets?

This script will keep running until it reaches the maximum amount of tweets allowed by the Twitter API (which is 3240, this looks for 3200)

If the account your trying to download from has less than 3200, change the line

while len(alltweets) <= 3200:

To

while len(alltweets) <= 759

Thanks!