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Twitter API FOR HUMANS

CLI TOOL that fetches twitter user/tweet search API data and outputs to csv

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/vaulstein/twitterApiForHumans.git
cd twitterApiForHumans
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

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Create an app on twitter on the following link: App on twitter

After creating your app, you will find the App keys on the link: https://apps.twitter.com/app/{ API KEY }/keys

Run the following command:

python quickstart.py

On running the script you would be asked a set of questions that would help in fetching the required data

 > Your Application's Consumer Key(API Key)? Found here: https://apps.twitter.com/
 > Your Application's Consumer Secret(API Secret)? Found here: https://apps.twitter.com/app/{ Your API}/keys
 > Your Access Token? Found here: https://apps.twitter.com/app/{ Your API}/keys
 > Your Access Token Secret? Found here: https://apps.twitter.com/app/{ Your API}/keys
 > Fetch Tweet Data or User Data? 1/Tweet 2/User [2] ( Type 1 for tweet search, 2 for User search)

Based on your selection you would be asked a few questions for the search parameters.

The different search parameters can be found here: Query parameters

The first question is the query parameter, where you can use different operators to search data

For fetching Tweet search data, the below is an example of questions:

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The last question would be the name of the output file you would want to write to. If you specify the same file name as the last, remember to take a backup.

Remember twitter API is rate limited. Rate limits for tweet search are 450/15 minutes. Rate limits for user search are 900/15 minutes.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTE.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Authors

  • VAULSTEIN RODRIGUES - Initial work - Blog

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

  • Code from Pelican used
  • Json2csv converter used to convert Json response to Csv Json2csv

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