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Get all tweets with a certain hashtag
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| from TwitterAPI import TwitterAPI | |
| from TwitterAPI import TwitterRestPager | |
| from natsort import versorted | |
| import json, sys, glob, os | |
| def main(args): | |
| if len(args) < 2: | |
| print "usage: python tweets.py #hashtag" | |
| print "" | |
| sys.exit(1) | |
| hashtag = args[1] | |
| lastfilenum = lastFile(hashtag) | |
| lastfile = hashtag + "-tweets." + str(lastfilenum) + ".json" | |
| tID = 0 | |
| if lastfilenum == 0: | |
| currentfile = lastfile | |
| else: | |
| tID = mostRecentTweetID(lastfile) | |
| currentfile = hashtag + "-tweets."+ str(int(lastfilenum) + 1) + ".json" | |
| getTweets(currentfile, tID, hashtag) | |
| def lastFile(hashtag): | |
| files = versorted(glob.glob(hashtag + "-tweets.*.json")) | |
| if len(files) == 0: | |
| return 0 | |
| lastfilenum = files[len(files)-1].split('.')[1] | |
| return lastfilenum | |
| def mostRecentTweetID(lastfile): | |
| filename = "tweets." + str(lastfile) | |
| file = open(lastfile, 'r') | |
| line = file.readline() | |
| data = json.loads(line) | |
| file.close() | |
| id = data['id'] | |
| return id | |
| def getTweets(currentfile, tID, hashtag): | |
| CONSUMER_KEY = 'YOURCONSUMERKEY' | |
| CONSUMER_SECRET = 'YOURCONSUMERSECRET' | |
| ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = 'YOURACCESSTOKENKEY' | |
| ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'YOURACCESSTOKENSECRET' | |
| api = TwitterAPI( | |
| CONSUMER_KEY, | |
| CONSUMER_SECRET, | |
| ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, | |
| ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET) | |
| r = TwitterRestPager(api, 'search/tweets', {'q':hashtag, 'count':100}) | |
| msgs = 1 | |
| file = open(currentfile, 'w') | |
| for item in r.get_iterator(): | |
| if 'text' in item: | |
| if item['id'] <= tID: | |
| break | |
| file.write(json.dumps(item)) | |
| file.write("\n") | |
| sys.stdout.write('\r' + str(msgs) + " " + str(item['created_at'])) | |
| sys.stdout.flush() | |
| msgs = msgs + 1 | |
| elif 'message' in item and item['code'] == 88: | |
| print 'SUSPEND, RATE LIMIT EXCEEDED: %s\n' % item['message'] | |
| break | |
| if file.tell() == 0: | |
| os.remove(currentfile) | |
| else: | |
| file.close() | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| sys.exit(not main(sys.argv)) |
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Get all tweets that contain a certain hashtag.
Using TwitterAPI. Do
pip install TwitterAPIbefore usage.Replace
YOURCONSUMERKEY,YOURCONSUMERSERCRET,YOURCONSUMERKEY,YOURCONSUMERSECRETwith your keys.