A Python script to download all the tweets of a hashtag into a csv

twitter crawler.txt

import tweepy
import csv
import pandas as pd
####input your credentials here
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True)
#####United Airlines
# Open/Create a file to append data
csvFile = open('ua.csv', 'a')
#Use csv Writer
csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)

for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q="#unitedAIRLINES",count=100,
                           lang="en",
                           since="2017-04-03").items():
    print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)
    csvWriter.writerow([tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode('utf-8')])

thank you!

When I run this script on Python 27 (on a windows 10 machine) nothing happens and no error is returned... can you please help?

@vitospinelli When you see print(things) not print things wrapped in parentheses you're dealing with python 3. Drop 2 unless you really have to use it. You have 2 years to get used to 3: https://pythonclock.org

I tried using the same code on 2018-03-21 and was thinking to fetch tweet as old as 2018-02-01 but it was unable to return those many tweets, any idea why?

@sushonvan1 the twitter API only lets you go back approximately 2 weeks

Thanku very much

i want to fetch tweet as old as 2018-01-01, can you help me please?

Hi, I want to extract the hashtags from the tweets and store it into a file. is it possible?

Hi, i want to save the tweets that i obtain into an array, is it possible?! thanks

Running this script w/ Python 3.6, it's working just fine, outputting the data and creating the CSV file, but the CSV file appears empty when I open it. Any ideas?

Thanks, the script runs fine on Python 3.5.2. I just would add a .encode('utf-8') in the print command on line 22. Otherwise I got an error when printing tweets to the console.

How would I go about adding in location(e.g. geo_id or coordinates) and user_id? I've been going through the Tweepy documentation and Twitter API documentation, but can't find any information to add arguments like tweet.text and tweet.created_at.

Update: After some more digging, I managed to find this output of the json file to find which arguments can be called for information: https://gist.github.com/dev-techmoe/ef676cdd03ac47ac503e856282077bf2

So, I learned that I can call geo, place, and coordinates (tweet.geo, tweet.place, tweet.coordinates), but it doesn't appear to do well for historical data. I maybe pulled 3 out of several thousand so far :/

But it's a handy reference for things like tweet.user.id or tweet.user.screen_name!

I'm still looking for a way to determine if the tweet is a retweet (tweets I'd like to remove in my analysis), but besides the tweet.text beginning with "b'RT @" or if it is an advertisement (e.g. 'Buy 3 for 2 promotion' kinda thing). If anyone has any advice on those, I'd be greatly appreciative!

@carlvlewis I had the same problem initially. I changed line 15 from append ('a') to write ('w') and it works just fine.

it working fine...but no data is stored in the file....
please help me...

having the same issue, nothing is being stored in csv, csnt seem to find the issue

Thank you so much!

Hello.

I'm geting this error:

File "C:\Users\Gabriel\Desktop\tweet\crawling.py", line 22, in
print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'UCS-2' codec can't encode characters in position 46-46: Non-BMP character not supported in Tk

Can someone help me?

hello, pls how do i get the number of times a user posted a tweet using a particular hashtag

if I want to add another attribute for streaming results, where I can see the tutorial. thank you

Thank you! Works fine!

Im getting error
TweepError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
18
19 for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q="#indianairways",count=100,
---> 20 lang="en").items():
21 print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)
22 csvWriter.writerow([tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode('utf-8')])

~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
47
48 def next(self):
---> 49 return self.next()
50
51 def next(self):

~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
195 if self.current_page is None or self.page_index == len(self.current_page) - 1:
196 # Reached end of current page, get the next page...
--> 197 self.current_page = self.page_iterator.next()
198 self.page_index = -1
199 self.page_index += 1

~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
106
107 if self.index >= len(self.results) - 1:
--> 108 data = self.method(max_id=self.max_id, parser=RawParser(), *self.args, **self.kargs)
109
110 if hasattr(self.method, 'self'):

~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py in _call(*args, **kwargs)
248 return method
249 else:
--> 250 return method.execute()
251
252 # Set pagination mode

~\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py in execute(self)
232 raise RateLimitError(error_msg, resp)
233 else:
--> 234 raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
235
236 # Parse the response payload

TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 401
plz help me with this

In line 23, instead of CsvWriter it should be csvFile.

      it working fine...but no data is stored in the file....

please help me...

@Balajigentela you should run in cmd

please help me, is giving me this error
TweepError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
1 for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q="#APC",count=100,
2 lang="en",
----> 3 since="2017-04-03").items():
4 print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)

D:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
47
48 def next(self):
---> 49 return self.next()
50
51 def next(self):

D:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
195 if self.current_page is None or self.page_index == len(self.current_page) - 1:
196 # Reached end of current page, get the next page...
--> 197 self.current_page = self.page_iterator.next()
198 self.page_index = -1
199 self.page_index += 1
D:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py in next(self)
106
107 if self.index >= len(self.results) - 1:
--> 108 data = self.method(max_id=self.max_id, parser=RawParser(), *self.args, **self.kargs)
109
110 if hasattr(self.method, 'self'):
D:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py in _call(*args, **kwargs)
248 return method
249 else:
--> 250 return method.execute()
251
252 # Set pagination mode

D:\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py in execute(self)
232 raise RateLimitError(error_msg, resp)
233 else:
--> 234 raise TweepError(error_msg, resp, api_code=api_error_code)
236 # Parse the response payload
TweepError: Twitter error response: status code = 400

It works fine for me! Thanks!

@humbleself

Regenerate your API Keys and Token. it will fine

I am having trouble with this code as it is spitting out an error that I am not sure how to solve:
``traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:/Users/Evdru/Documents/School Work/Science/Program Files/main.py", line 1, in
import tweepy
File "C:\Users\Evdru\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\tweepy_init_.py", line 17, in from tweepy.streaming import Stream, StreamListener
File "C:\Users\Evdru\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\tweepy\streaming.py", line 355
def _start(self, async): ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax`

what if i want to extract tweets from more number of hashtags? should i pass list of hashtags to 'q' attribute of tweepy.cursor?

how to search for multiple hashtags?

thank you thank you thank you!

Please help me.. I am getting thefollowing error..

C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\Scripts\python.exe "C:/Users/geethu/PycharmProjects/Landslip_langDetection_Final/twitter crawler.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 343, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 839, in validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 344, in connect
ssl_context=context)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\ssl.py", line 344, in ssl_wrap_socket
return context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "C:\Users\geethu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\ssl.py", line 412, in wrap_socket
session=session
File "C:\Users\geethu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\ssl.py", line 853, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "C:\Users\geethu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\ssl.py", line 1117, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
socket.timeout: _ssl.c:1039: The handshake operation timed out

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 449, in send
timeout=timeout
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 367, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 686, in reraise
raise value
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 346, in _make_request
self._raise_timeout(err=e, url=url, timeout_value=conn.timeout)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 306, in _raise_timeout
raise ReadTimeoutError(self, url, "Read timed out. (read timeout=%s)" % timeout_value)
urllib3.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 190, in execute
proxies=self.api.proxy)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 529, in send
raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/geethu/PycharmProjects/Landslip_langDetection_Final/twitter crawler.py", line 21, in
since="2017-04-03").items():
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py", line 49, in next
return self.next()
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py", line 197, in next
self.current_page = self.page_iterator.next()
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\cursor.py", line 108, in next
data = self.method(max_id=self.max_id, parser=RawParser(), *self.args, **self.kargs)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 250, in _call
return method.execute()
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 192, in execute
six.reraise(TweepError, TweepError('Failed to send request: %s' % e), sys.exc_info()[2])
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\six.py", line 692, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\tweepy\binder.py", line 190, in execute
proxies=self.api.proxy)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\geethu\LangDetect\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 529, in send
raise ReadTimeout(e, request=request)
tweepy.error.TweepError: Failed to send request: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.twitter.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

Process finished with exit code 1

i couldn't find "since" parameter in tweepy documents. would you mind to explain and give me a link to the corresponding document?

ua.csv is an empty file ...can you please guide on how to get the data in ua.csv
thanks a lot in advance please do help !!

seems to down load tweets, but most appear to be chopped off so you don't get the full tweet. Not very useful.

seems to down load tweets, but most appear to be chopped off so you don't get the full tweet. Not very useful.

@ateeley , you may use my code which uses the extended twitter feature and you can get the full tweet.

https://gist.github.com/sxshateri/540aead254bfa7810ee8bbb2d298363e

thanks sxshateri, seems to work ok with python3 in virtuelenv.

Hi, Thanks for this code. I am a beginner, learning python, so please bear with my list of questions.
1> how can get user gender also and store the dataset in a data-frame for analysis, like which gender tweeted most on a hashtag?
2>Also, on a particular hashtag I am getting very less data than expected, is it limiting data by twitter? (for one keyword I have got 2K records and for another got 17K). how can I ensure full record download?
3>there is an extra blank line appearing before each line of results, how to avoid it?
4> File gets locked and opens in only read-only format, (processing is done). how to remove the lock?

@humbleself

Regenerate your API Keys and Token. it will fine

How do i do that

Hi, i want to save the tweets that i obtain into an array, is it possible?! thanks

yes it is possible

Thank you, this is really valuable, i was going thru another path but this is shows that it can be done in a simple way.
thanks

Great work!!
I have a question- will it return any response if there is one only tweet which is dated Feb 19, 2015? For hashtag- LexusEnformRemote
I have read Tweepy only return tweets for the past 7 days.

One more thing, how to search for multiple hashtags in a single loop?

Great work!!
I have a question- will it return any response if there is one only tweet which is dated Feb 19, 2015? For hashtag- LexusEnformRemote
I have read Tweepy only return tweets for the past 7 days.

One more thing, how to search for multiple hashtags in a single loop?

Answering my own question of getting tweets beyond the past 7 days. I used GetOldTweets3 library by @Jefferson-Henrique and it's working fine for me. We can get tweets by multiple user accounts in one go but search doesn't take two hashtags.
Link

it working fine...but no data is stored in the file....
please help me...

hey i am also getting the same error did u sove that

it working fine...but no data is stored in the file....
please help me...

hey i am also getting the same error did u sove that

Hello,

It's my first time with python and this library and I have a strange error. In my query, i don't have all the tweets, only the 25-30 last tweets. But if I do the same search in Twitter, I have a lot of tweets in the results. Anyone knows why?

Running this script w/ Python 3.6, it's working just fine, outputting the data and creating the CSV file, but the CSV file appears empty when I open it. Any ideas?

I am also facing same issues. Can you tell me how you fixed it?

ua.csv is an empty file ...can you please guide on how to get the data in ua.csv
thanks a lot in advance please do help !!

I am also facing same issues. Can you tell me how you fixed it?

Hi!

Is it possible to make this "live" such as everytime a tweet is posted with a #cat it fetches it? Or that the code just looks a the last minute every other minute?

I hope this is clear?

Can anyone help me find a way to obtain these data for longer period of time? such as using gotoldtweets3? Thank you very much.

just signed up to github to say thank you

Hello Thank You for the above code, I wanted to download data by hashtag and the location. For example - tweets with "#coronavirus" and the locations of the tweets "India" and the tweets time limit from "2020-04-01" till "2020-04-31", can anyone please help me for that, It is really important for my research.

How to retrieve the name of the user who tweeted?

How can I get tweets containing only keywords I mentioned independent of position, like I tried stream.filter(track=["good","bank","@NYC"]), I used these keywords in the code but sometimes I am getting tweets containing either 1,2 or 3 of them together. I want to get tweets containing 3 of these keywords, independent of the position.

I am a novice here. The code didn't work for me first. However, it worked after I added one line to the end - csvFile.close()
Not sure if I am the only one who faced it or it is such a trivial problem that all others have fixed it already in their own codes.

This code works. Thank you!
How can I increase the character limit that is currently forced on the tweets extracted?

Thank you!

What is the max value to which I can set the count to?

Thanks! This is short and sweet. Worked for me using: Python 3.7.6

also, for those wondering how to get output into a Pandas DF, I did this (added two lists):

created_at = []
text = []
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search,q=["#covidnurse"],count=100,
                           lang="en",
                           since="2020-03-15").items():
    print (tweet.created_at, tweet.text)
    csvWriter.writerow([tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode('utf-8')])
    created_at.append(tweet.created_at)
    text.append(tweet.text)

df =  pd.DataFrame(
    {'created_at': created_at,
     'tweet': text
    })
df #RT (Retweets) are duplicates since Twitter is an echo chamber; will need to get rid of duplicates

df_clean = df[~df.tweet.str.contains("RT")]
df_clean

Great work!!
I have a question- will it return any response if there is one only tweet which is dated Feb 19, 2015? For hashtag- LexusEnformRemote
I have read Tweepy only return tweets for the past 7 days.
One more thing, how to search for multiple hashtags in a single loop?

Answering my own question of getting tweets beyond the past 7 days. I used GetOldTweets3 library by @Jefferson-Henrique and it's working fine for me. We can get tweets by multiple user accounts in one go but search doesn't take two hashtags.
Link

@abhishek-negi to search for multiple hashtags you could perform a loop from a list.

Something like this:

list_tweets_all_hashtags = []
hashtags_list = #tag1, #tag2, #tagN

for hashtag in hashtags_list:
    list_by_tag = [for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=hashtag, result_type="recent").items(100)]
    list_tweets_all_hashtags.extend(list_by_tag)
    
print(list_tweets_all_hashtags)

I am getting the below error at this line: csvFile = open('askgretawhy.csv', 'a')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'askgretawhy.csv'

Please help me understand where is the issue.

I am getting the below error at this line: csvFile = open('askgretawhy.csv', 'a')

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'askgretawhy.csv'

Please help me understand where is the issue.

It’s most likely you don’t have the appropriate permissions to write/overwrite file askgretawhy.csv or to write on the current folder where the program runs.

If the file already exists, I suggest to run chmod 777 askgretawhy.csv and try again. If not, try giving less strict permissions to the current folder, if you can.

I am getting the below error at this line: csvFile = open('askgretawhy.csv', 'a')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'askgretawhy.csv'
Please help me understand where is the issue.

It’s most likely you don’t have the appropriate permissions to write/overwrite file askgretawhy.csv or to write on the current folder where the program runs.

If the file already exists, I suggest to run chmod 777 askgretawhy.csv and try again. If not, try giving less strict permissions to the current folder, if you can.

How do I change the permissions? I am working on basic Python editor and do not know where can I create the file for Python to read it.

File "C:/Users/hp/Documents/1.py", line 5
consumer_key ='249QYJU8UqoS364VqIOoWmpJQ'
^
IndentationError: unexpected indent

Getting this error please help
ASAP!

@riiyasharmaa you might need to unindent (tab to the left)

Many thanks for the crawler mate, I was looking for it and didn´t have time to spend on it.

cheers

I get This error from Python :
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 22-23: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
Any help please !!

Hello,
how we can add the geolocalisation like : France to this script and more filters in the search ???