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A script to download all of a user's tweets into a csv (ported to Python3)
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| # forked from https://gist.github.com/yanofsky/5436496 and ported to Python3 | |
| import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy | |
| import csv | |
| #Twitter API credentials | |
| consumer_key = '' | |
| consumer_secret = '' | |
| access_key = '' | |
| access_secret = '' | |
| def get_all_tweets(screen_name): | |
| #Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method | |
| #authorize twitter, initialize tweepy | |
| auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
| auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret) | |
| api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
| #initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets | |
| alltweets = [] | |
| #make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count) | |
| new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,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 there are no tweets left to grab | |
| while len(new_tweets) > 0: | |
| print("getting tweets before %s" % (oldest)) | |
| #all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates | |
| new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,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("...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))) | |
| #transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv | |
| outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text] for tweet in alltweets] | |
| #write the csv | |
| try: | |
| with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'a') as f: | |
| writer = csv.writer(f) | |
| writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"]) | |
| writer.writerows(outtweets) | |
| except TypeError: | |
| pass | |
| pass | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| #pass in the username of the account you want to download | |
| get_all_tweets("neuro_skeptic") |
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