Tweet_Analysis

This work was done for a course project.

About the Project

For a given username it classifies whether the reactions of the public on the tweets posted by that particular username is of positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.

You don't need a dataset. We are using Tweepy (a Twitter API) for accessing the tweets. Then we will perform the analysis on those tweets.

Requirements

There are some general library requirements for the project and some which are specific to individual methods. The general requirements are as follows.

• tweepy
• sys
• csv
• re
• matplotlib
• textblob

Setting up the environment

Step 1: Tweepy Account

To be able to retrieve data using Tweepy you are going to need the following things:

• Install tweepy module.
• You can execute the command pip install tweepy in the command-line to install it.
• Create an app in Twitter Developers.
• An authenticated Twitter user is required.
• Create an access token. You can achieve that by accessing the Keys and AccessToken tab of your Twitter App’s main page and clicking in Create my access token button.

Step 2: Accessing the API using tweepy

First, we need to import the tweepy module

import tweepy

Now we are going to need to set the variables that are required to initially have access to the Twitter API. They are the Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token and Access Token Secret. You have access to all their values in in App's Manage Keys and Access Token tab in the App's main page.

consumer_key = "Your Consumer Key";
consumer_secret = "Your Consumer Secret";
access_token = "Your Access Token";
access_token_secret = "Your Access Token Secret";

Now we set OAuth authentication to allow tweepy to connect to Twitter API. To achieve that, we are going to create a tweepy.OAuthHandler instance and pass both Consumer Key and Consumer Secret as parameters, in this order. Also it is needed to call the OAuthHandler.set_access_token method passing both Access Token and Access Secret as parameters. Finally, we instantiate the tweepy.API class passing the OAuthHandler instance we have created as parameter.

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

Running the Code

Make sure you have all the requirements installed.

Run the code using: python3 tweet.py or python tweet.py