Script that downloads and counts tweets

twitter_crawler.py

import tweepy
import csv

from datetime import date, timedelta, datetime

CONSUMER_KEY = ''
CONSUMER_SECRET = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN = ''
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = ''

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth, wait_on_rate_limit = True)

# Fecha hasta la que buscar
fecha_origen  = datetime(2019, 12, 1)

# Fecha desde la que buscar, por defecto hoy
fecha_destino = date.today()

# Diccionario de tweets y su recuento
tweet_dict = {}

fecha_destino = fecha_destino - timedelta(days = 1)
cursor = tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q = "#coronavirus", count = 100, lang="es", since=str(fecha_origen))

print("Procesando tweets...")
for tweet in cursor.items():
    date = str(tweet.created_at.date())
    try:
        tweet_dict[date] += 1
    except KeyError:
        tweet_dict[date] = 1

    if tweet.created_at.date() < fecha_destino:
        time_now = datetime.now().strftime("%d/%m/%y %H:%M")
        current_date = str(tweet.created_at.date())
        print(f'[{time_now}] Escribiendo datos para {current_date}')
        try:
            fecha_destino = fecha_destino - timedelta(days = 1)
            with open('data.csv', 'w+') as csvfile:
                for key in tweet_dict.keys():
                    csvfile.write("%s, %s\n" % (key, tweet_dict[key]))
        except IOError:
            print("Ocurrió un error...")