Twitter Tweet Counter

This code uses Twitter's REST and STREAMING API's to return a CSV of tweets for given criteria.

Required Dependencies:

• TwitterAPI : pip install TwitterAPI in Shell
• Tweepy: pip install tweepy in Shell

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Running the Code

• ####1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/jmausolf/Twitter_Tweet_Counter

• ####2. Input Your Twitter Authentication

• ####3. Run Either (A) REST API or (B) STREAMING API

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1. Clone the Repo

Using the Shell: git clone https://github.com/jmausolf/Twitter_Tweet_Counter

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2. Twitter Authentication Credentials

You will first need to setup an "application" from Twitter to generate your oAuth keys. Once you go through this process, you will end up with four key pieces of information:

• consumer_key
• consumer_secret
• access_token_key
• access_token_secret

Create a "mycredentials.py" file following the format of example_credentials.py:

consumer_key = "yoursecretconsumerkey"
consumer_secret = "yoursupersecret_consumer_secret"
access_token_key = "your_access_token_key"
access_token_secret = "your_access_token_secret"

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3A. REST API: Run the Query for One or More Hashtags

To run the script, open terminal and type a query:

Example: No Limit (Can Take a Long Time)

#One Hashtag
python Twitter_Counter.py '#Obama'

#Two or More Hashtags
python Twitter_Counter.py '#Obama' '#Hilary'
python Twitter_Counter.py '#OccupyWallStreet' '#OWS'

For each hashtag, the script will search Twitter using the RestAPI, and return a .csv of the most recent tweets. The CSV will include the following information: DATE, TIME, COUNT, HASHTAG, and TWEET.

NOTE: The above examples will return all available tweets (going back a week)

Some hashtags include hundreds of thousands of tweets, and this will take considerable time

Example: Specified Limit (Faster)

#One Hashtag
python Twitter_Counter.py '#Obama' --limit 100

#Two or More Hashtags
python Twitter_Counter.py '#Obama' '#Hilary' --limit 100
python Twitter_Counter.py '#OccupyWallStreet' '#OWS' --limit 100

3B. STREAMING API: Run the Query for Particular Search Terms

This script will initialize Twitter's STREAMING API using Tweepy.

Example: Streaming for Hillary Tweets

#One Keyword
python Streaming_Tweets.py "Hillary"

#Two or More Keywords
python Streaming_Tweets.py "#ImWithHer" "#Hillary"

Once executed, this script will run until the users haults the script. To exit the script use your keyboard to interupt using Control+C.

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