82 lines
3.1 KiB
Python
82 lines
3.1 KiB
Python
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#!/usr/bin/env python
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# encoding: utf-8
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# Some legacy code I wrote for a project in college. It's ugly and messy. I'll clean it up and repurpose it later.
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import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
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import csv
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from time import sleep
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def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
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#Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method
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with open('keys.txt', 'r') as f:
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#Twitter API credential
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consumer_key = f.readline().rstrip()
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consumer_secret = f.readline().rstrip()
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access_key = f.readline().rstrip()
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access_secret = f.readline().rstrip()
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#authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
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auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
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auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
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api = tweepy.API(auth)
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#initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
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alltweets = []
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#make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)
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new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,tweet_mode = 'extended')
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#save most recent tweets
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alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
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#save the id of the oldest tweet less one
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oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
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#keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
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while len(new_tweets) > 0 and len(alltweets) < 3000:
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print("getting tweets before %s" % (oldest))
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#all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
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new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,max_id=oldest)
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#save most recent tweets
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alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
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#update the id of the oldest tweet less one
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oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
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print("...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets)))
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#transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv
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outtweets = []
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for tweet in alltweets:
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try:
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if tweet.retweeted or ('RT @' in tweet.text):
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outtweets.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, "True", tweet.retweeted_status.text.encode("utf-8"), tweet.entities.get('hashtags'), tweet.entities.get('user_mentions')])
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except:
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try:
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outtweets.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, ('RT @' in tweet.full_text), tweet.full_text.encode("utf-8"), tweet.entities.get('hashtags'), tweet.entities.get('user_mentions')])
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except:
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outtweets.append([tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, ('RT @' in tweet.text), tweet.text.encode("utf-8"), tweet.entities.get('hashtags'), tweet.entities.get('user_mentions')])
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#write the csv
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with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'w') as f:
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writer = csv.writer(f)
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writer.writerow(["id","created_at","retweet","text","hashtags","user_mentions"])
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writer.writerows(outtweets)
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pass
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if __name__ == '__main__':
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#pass in the username of the account you want to download
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counter = 0
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with open("users.txt", "r") as f:
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for line in f:
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get_all_tweets(line.rstrip())
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counter = counter + 1
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if (counter % 5) == 0:
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sleep(15*60)
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