Get Old Tweets Programmatically

This is an updated project forked from Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python

This readme will be updated again, as i haven't much time to update this readme for now on.

A project written in Python to get old tweets. It bypass some limitations of Twitter Official API.

Prerequisites

This package assumes you are using Python 2.x.

I'm updating and trying to maintain the Python 3 package. You can use it on "got3" folder.

Expected package dependencies are listed in the "requirements.txt" file for PIP, you need to run the following command to get dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Components

• Tweet: Model class to give some informations about a specific tweet.

  • id (str)
  • permalink (str)
  • username (str)
  • text (str)
  • date (date)
  • retweets (int)
  • favorites (int)
  • mentions (str)
  • hashtags (str)
  • geo (str)

• TweetManager: A manager class to help getting tweets in Tweet's model.

  • getTweets (TwitterCriteria): Return the list of tweets retrieved by using an instance of TwitterCriteria.

• TwitterCriteria: A collection of search parameters to be used together with TweetManager.

  • setUsername (str): An optional specific username from a twitter account. Without "@".
  • setSince (str. "yyyy-mm-dd"): A lower bound date to restrict search.
  • setUntil (str. "yyyy-mm-dd"): An upper bound date to restrist search.
  • setQuerySearch (str): A query text to be matched.
  • setTopTweets (bool): If True only the Top Tweets will be retrieved.
  • setNear(str): A reference location area from where tweets were generated.
  • setWithin (str): A distance radius from "near" location (e.g. 15mi).
  • setMaxTweets (int): The maximum number of tweets to be retrieved. If this number is unsetted or lower than 1 all possible tweets will be retrieved.

• Main: Examples of how to use.

• Exporter: Export tweets to a csv file named "output_got.csv".

Examples of python usage

• Get tweets by username

tweetCriteria=got.manager.TweetCriteria().setUsername('barackobama').setMaxTweets(1)
tweet=got.manager.TweetManager.getTweets(tweetCriteria)[0]
printtweet.text

• Get tweets by query search

tweetCriteria=got.manager.TweetCriteria().setQuerySearch('europe refugees').setSince("2015-05-01").setUntil("2015-09-30").setMaxTweets(1)
tweet=got.manager.TweetManager.getTweets(tweetCriteria)[0]
printtweet.text

• Get tweets by username and bound dates

tweetCriteria=got.manager.TweetCriteria().setUsername("barackobama").setSince("2015-09-10").setUntil("2015-09-12").setMaxTweets(1)
tweet=got.manager.TweetManager.getTweets(tweetCriteria)[0]
printtweet.text

• Get the last 10 top tweets by username

tweetCriteria=got.manager.TweetCriteria().setUsername("barackobama").setTopTweets(True).setMaxTweets(10)
# first onetweet=got.manager.TweetManager.getTweets(tweetCriteria)[0]
printtweet.text

Examples of command-line usage

• Get help use

 python Exporter.py -h

• Get tweets by username

 python Exporter.py --username "barackobama" --maxtweets 1

• Get tweets by query search and specific languages

 python Exporter.py --querysearch "Receh" --maxtweets 1 --lang "id"

• Get tweets by username and bound dates

 python Exporter.py --username "barackobama" --since 2015-09-10 --until 2015-09-12 --maxtweets 1

• Get the last 10 top tweets by username

 python Exporter.py --username "barackobama" --maxtweets 10 --toptweets