#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 import sys try: import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy except ImportError: print("You'll need tweepy instaled on your system.") sys.exit() try: import csv except ImportError: print("You'll need the python csv module instaled on your system.") sys.exit() consumer_key = "xxx" consumer_secret = "yyy" access_key = "aa-zzzz" access_secret = "bbb" def get_all_tweets(screen_name): if (consumer_key == ""): print("You need to set up the script first. Edit it and add your keys.") return #Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method #authorize x, initialize tweepy auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret) api = tweepy.API(auth) #initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets alltweets = [] #make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count) new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200) #save most recent tweets alltweets.extend(new_tweets) #save the id of the oldest tweet less one oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1 #keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab while len(new_tweets) > 0: print("getting tweets before %s" % (oldest)) #all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,max_id=oldest) #save most recent tweets alltweets.extend(new_tweets) #update the id of the oldest tweet less one oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1 print("...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))) #transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text] for tweet in alltweets] #write the csv with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'w') as f: writer = csv.writer(f) writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"]) writer.writerows(outtweets) pass if __name__ == '__main__': if (len(sys.argv) == 2): get_all_tweets(sys.argv[1]) else: print("Please add the x account you want to back up as an argument.")