Twitter Bot - Analytics Accounts

Category

Web scraping/automation/data collection

Purpose

Collect data from Twitter Analytics accounts.

User needs

Helping out the team's performance analyst automate a process that up until now was done manually. The bot visits 36 individual twitter accounts and collects data that is saved in a .csv file, ready for analysis.

Data collected

• Followers
• Profile visits
• Mentions
• New followers
• Video analytics (csv download)
• Tweet analytics (csv download)

File structure

Main file twitter-bot.py that imports the following modules

twitter-bot.py
|__format_number.py
|__return_mentions.py
|__return_new_followers.py
|__return_profile_visits.py
|__return_followers.py
|__create_csv.py

Dependencies

Built with Python 3.6.4 and the following modules

• selenium
• datetime
• time
• os
• csv

Developed by

Kostas Koutoupis (@kkoutoup) for the Web and Publications Unit (WPU) of the Chambers and Committee Office (CCT), House of Commons