Python/web_programming/get_user_tweets.py.DISABLED
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import csv
import tweepy
# Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
def get_all_tweets(screen_name: str) -> None:
# authorize twitter, 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(f"getting tweets before {oldest}")
# all subsequent 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(f"...{len(alltweets)} tweets downloaded so far")
# 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(f"new_{screen_name}_tweets.csv", "w") as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["id", "created_at", "text"])
writer.writerows(outtweets)
if __name__ == "__main__":
# pass in the username of the account you want to download
get_all_tweets("FirePing32")