tweepyScripts

Script will use Tweepy search API and user_time API. Adapted from this post: Link

Overview

See individual script readmes for more details.

Components

twitterSearch

• Requires 3 arguments: searchterm (could be # hashtag, just put in quotes), number of Tweets to collect (some arbitrary large number), and filename to save as CSV output.

twitterUserTimeline

• Requires a users.txt file to be in same directory which contains a list of all the usernames you want to download. See sample users.txt for example.
• Requires 2 arguments: max number of Tweets to collect (some arbitrary large number), and filename to save as CSV output.

twitterUser

• No arguments, edit the users list with the username you want to search for and it will retreive various details about that user profile.

Usage

• Assume Python is installed, pip install depenedencies (Tweepy, codecs, unicodecsv)
• Have a users.txt file located in the same folder.
• Run twitterUserTimeline.py with arguments, EX: "./twitterUserTimeline.py 10000 sampleOutput.csv"
• Run twitterSearch.py with arguments, EX: "./twitterSearch.py "#MarchMadness" 10000 sampleOutput.csv"