https://github.com/ideoforms/tweetarchive
A lightweight twitter archiving tool, written in Python
https://github.com/ideoforms/tweetarchive
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A lightweight twitter archiving tool, written in Python
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ideoforms/tweetarchive
- Owner: ideoforms
- Created: 2011-03-10T11:14:56.000Z (over 15 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2012-12-06T15:29:35.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-06T09:10:01.877Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 113 KB
- Stars: 12
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README
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README
tweetarchive: lightweight, pythonic twitter archiving.
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* uses the tweepy library with oauth for protected accounts
* only archives tweets created since last time
* writes CSV output with user-specified format
* uses time delays to avoid hitting load throttling
REQUIREMENTS
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* python-twitter-tools
- for twitter API access
pip install twitter
http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/
* BeautifulSoup
- for conversion to ASCII and HTML entity removal
pip install beautifulsoup
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
USAGE
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* modify settings.py
* ./tweetarchive.py [username]