Downloads images/photos uploaded on twitter by a given user.
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
- Sign in with your Twitter account
- Create a new app account
- Fill necessary details
- Generate a new OAuth token with those permissions
Following these steps will create 4 tokens that you will need to authenticate your account.
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.