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Query the Twitter Public Timeline ~every couple minutes. For each user listed, save their status and location.
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#Query the Twitter Public Timeline ~every couple minutes. For each user listed, save their status and location. | |
#I used this to examine what % of twitter users provide resolvable locations, and potentially to analyse | |
#those locations (I had an idea I might try passing them thru Yahoo Geolocation API to get a country by | |
#dcountry breakdown, but in the end I didn't) | |
import twitter | |
import time | |
#set up files | |
statuspath="F:\\TWITDATA\\TIMELINE\\"+time.strftime("%b_%d_%Y__%H-%M", time.localtime())+"statuses.txt" | |
locpath="F:\\TWITDATA\\GEOGRAPHY\\"+time.strftime("%b_%d_%Y__%H-%M", time.localtime())+"locations.txt" | |
#access to Twitter public timeline | |
api=twitter.Api() | |
#loop... | |
for y in range(10000): | |
timeline=api.GetPublicTimeline() #public timeline requires no authentication | |
#open files for writing | |
statusfile=open(statuspath, 'a') | |
locfile=open(locpath, 'a') | |
#file headers | |
statusfile.write("\n\n"+time.asctime(time.localtime())+"\n\n") | |
locfile.write("\n\n"+time.asctime(time.localtime())+"\n\n") | |
#write status info to files | |
for s in timeline: | |
#status | |
statusfile.write(s.user.screen_name+"\n POST:\n") | |
try: | |
statusfile.write(s.text) | |
except: | |
statusfile.write("***NO MSG OR MSG NOT RETRIEVABLE***") | |
statusfile.write("\nCREATED AT:\n"+s.created_at) | |
statusfile.write("\nStatuss ID: "+str(s.id)+"\n\n") | |
#write location | |
locfile.write("\n"+s.user.screen_name+"\n") | |
try: | |
if s.user.location=="": | |
locfile.write("***NO LOCATION***\n\n") | |
else: | |
locfile.write(s.user.location+"\n\n") | |
except: | |
locfile.write("***NO LOCATION***\n\n") | |
statusfile.write("\n\n=============FIN================\n\n\n") | |
locfile.write("\n\n=============FIN================\n\n\n") | |
#close files | |
statusfile.close() | |
locfile.close() | |
#sleep.. | |
time.sleep(110) |
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