tweepy_example.py

"""
This code snippet do the following:
- It grabs the last 100 tweets from 10 users
- saves the tweets in .csv format inside the CSV directory (it creates the CSV directory if it not exists)
"""
import sys, os
import csv
import tweepy
from tweepy import OAuthHandler

consumer_key = 'your_consumer_key'
consumer_secret = 'your_consumer_secret'
access_key = 'your_access_key'
access_secret = 'your_access_secret"
 
auth = OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
 
api = tweepy.API(auth)

#method to get a user's last 100 tweets
def get_tweets(username):

	#http://tweepy.readthedocs.org/en/v3.1.0/getting_started.html#api
	auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
	auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
	api = tweepy.API(auth)

	#set count to however many tweets you want; twitter only allows 200 at once
	number_of_tweets = 100

	#get tweets
	tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = username, count = number_of_tweets)

	#create array of tweet information: username, tweet id, date/time, text
	tweets_for_csv = [[username,tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")] for tweet in tweets]

	#write to a new csv file from the array of tweets
	print("writing to {0}_tweets.csv".format(username))

	#creates the csv directory if not exists
	if not os.path.isdir('csv'):
		os.mkdir('csv')

	#write the username_tweets.csv file inside the csv folder
	with open("csv/{0}_tweets.csv".format(username) , 'w+') as file:
		writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter='|')
		writer.writerows(tweets_for_csv)


#if we're running this as a script
if __name__ == '__main__':
	#FASHION and FITNESS Influencers from TWITTER (twitter ID's)
	users = ['theblondesalad', 'aimeesong', 'Kayture', 'GalMeetsGlam', 'wendynguyen', 'greatist', 'dailyburn', 'FitBottomedGirl', 'bornfitness', 'TheRock']
	for user in users:
		get_tweets(user)