Twitter API

Short Description:

Imported Libraries:

• tweepy
• pandas
• csv

Purpose: It can extract tweets from a specific user or using a specifc keyword.

Steps Taken:

• Retrieved API tokens from twitter develepor account.
• Added them to a csv file, saved it on drive and used tokens by specifying the path.
• Twitter has a rate limit of about 900 tweets/15 minutes (could vary), it gives an error if you exceed it, hence added code to handle the error
• Created function user_tweets, which uses api.user_timeline to extract tweets from a specific user.
• Created function keyword_tweets, which uses api.search to extract tweets using a search query, i.e a keyword.
• Wrote the extracted tweets in a csv file, which gets created and saved in drive automatically.
• The main driver function: gave user option to choose how they wished to extract tweets and executed the code.
• Printed the hence created csv file.

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Setup Instructions:

1. Get a twitter developer account by registering at https://developer.twitter.com/en
2. Mount Google drive
3. Run the code.

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Output:

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Author:

Pragya Khanna