├── README.md
└── get_tweets.py


/README.md:
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 1 | ## Python Script to Download Tweets
 2 | 
 3 | Use the script `get_tweets.py` to download the last 100 tweets (or whatever number you choose) from any Twitter user.
 4 | 
 5 | ### Setup
 6 | (1) You need to get your Twitter API Credentials by creating a new app at [developer.twitter.com](developer.twitter.com).
 7 | 
 8 | (2) This script uses Tweepy. If you don't have Tweepy installed you need to run this command on the terminal first:
 9 | 
10 | ```
11 | $ sudo pip install tweepy
12 | ```
13 | 
14 | ### Clone and use the Python script
15 | Now you're ready to clone and use the get_tweets script.
16 | 
17 | ```
18 | $ git clone https://github.com/gitlaura/get_tweets.git
19 | $ cd get_tweets
20 | ```
21 | Enter the appropriate keys from your Twitter app in lines 11-15 of `get_tweets.py` using any text editor.
22 | 
23 | Finally you can run the script by entering one Twitter username at the command line:
24 | 
25 | ```
26 | $ python get_tweets.py [twitter_username]
27 | ```
28 | 
29 | #### More details on my blog:
30 | [http://www.getlaura.com/how-to-download-tweets-from-the-twitter-api/](http://www.getlaura.com/how-to-download-tweets-from-the-twitter-api/)
31 | 


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/get_tweets.py:
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 1 | #!/usr/bin/env python
 2 | # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 3 | 
 4 | import sys
 5 | import csv
 6 | 
 7 | #http://www.tweepy.org/
 8 | import tweepy
 9 | 
10 | #Get your Twitter API credentials and enter them here
11 | consumer_key = "your_consumer_key"
12 | consumer_secret = "your_consumer_secret"
13 | access_key = "your_access_key"
14 | access_secret = "your_access_secret"
15 | 
16 | #method to get a user's last tweets
17 | def get_tweets(username):
18 | 
19 | 	#http://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.1.0/getting_started.html#api
20 | 	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
21 | 	auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
22 | 	api = tweepy.API(auth)
23 | 
24 | 	#set count to however many tweets you want
25 | 	number_of_tweets = 100
26 | 
27 | 	#get tweets
28 | 	tweets_for_csv = []
29 | 	for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, screen_name = username).items(number_of_tweets):
30 |         #create array of tweet information: username, tweet id, date/time, text
31 | 		tweets_for_csv.append([username, tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")])
32 | 
33 | 	#write to a new csv file from the array of tweets
34 | 	outfile = username + "_tweets.csv"
35 | 	print "writing to " + outfile
36 | 	with open(outfile, 'w+') as file:
37 | 		writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter=',')
38 | 		writer.writerows(tweets_for_csv)
39 | 
40 | 
41 | #if we're running this as a script
42 | if __name__ == '__main__':
43 | 
44 |     #get tweets for username passed at command line
45 |     if len(sys.argv) == 2:
46 |         get_tweets(sys.argv[1])
47 |     else:
48 |         print "Error: enter one username"
49 | 
50 |     #alternative method: loop through multiple users
51 | 	# users = ['user1','user2']
52 | 
53 | 	# for user in users:
54 | 	# 	get_tweets(user)
55 | 


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