Twitter Image Downloader

Downloads images/photos uploaded on twitter by a given user.

Dependencies

This tool uses the Python tweepy library and wget package.

You can install requirements using requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

You will also need to create an app account on https://dev.twitter.com/apps to get authorization tokens

1. Sign in with your Twitter account
2. Create a new app account
3. Fill necessary details
4. Generate a new OAuth token with those permissions

Following these steps will create 4 tokens that you will need to authenticate your account.

How to Use

Edit the API_Tokens.py file and add all the 4 tokens you got in the previous step and save. Run the script by python twitter_image_downloader.py

Enter the user's twitter handle (@twitter_handle) you want to download images from, followed by max. number of tweets you want to search for (0 for all/max. allowed twwets by Twitter's API). The images are downloaded inside a folder named twitter_images, in the folder named user_handle.