https://github.com/krishh-konar/Twitter-Image-Downloader

Downloads media uploaded on twitter from a given account.
https://github.com/krishh-konar/Twitter-Image-Downloader

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Downloads media uploaded on twitter from a given account.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/krishh-konar/Twitter-Image-Downloader
• Owner: krishh-konar
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-04-04T19:38:00.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-24T11:12:21.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T15:11:19.594Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 12.7 KB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Twitter Image Downloader

Downloads images/photos uploaded on twitter from a given twitter handle.

### Dependencies

This tool uses the Python [tweepy](www.tweepy.org) library and [wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) package.

You can install requirements using `requirements.txt`.

`pip install -r requirements.txt`

### Authorization Tokens

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.

3. Fill necessary details

4. Generate OAuth tokens for the app.

Following these steps and a successful app creation, you will recieve 3 tokens for your app, namely `API_KEY`, `API_KEY_SECRET` and `BEARER_TOKEN`. 

### Usage

* Edit the `API_Tokens.py` file and add these tokens you recieved in the previous step and save.

#### Using CLI

* Run using `twitter_image_downloader.py [-h] [-H HANDLE] [-n [MAX_TWEETS]] [-t [{images,videos,gifs,all} ...]]`

Examples:

```

python twitter_image_downloader.py --handle arsenal 

python twitter_image_downloader.py --handle arsenal --max-tweets 10 --type images,gifs

```

#### Using Interactive UI

1. Run the script (`python twitter_image_downloader.py`).

2. Enter the user's twitter handle `(@)` you want to download images from, followed by max. number of tweets you want to search for.

3. The images are downloaded inside a folder named `twitter_images`, in the folder named ``.

Example:

```

$ python twitter_image_downloader.py 

Twitter Image Downloader:

========================

Enter the twitter handle of the Account to download media from:  arsenal

Enter Max. number of tweets to search (default: 1000): 10

Enter type of media (images/gifs/videos/all) (default: images) gifs images

Fetching tweets.....

...

```