twint_config.py

def getTweets(search_term, until, limit=20):
    """
    Configures Twint and returns a dataframe of tweets for a specific day.
    """
    # Configuring Twint for search
    c = twint.Config()

    # The limit of tweets to retrieve
    c.Limit = limit

    # Search term
    c.Search = search_term

    # Removing retweets
    c.Filter_retweets = True
    
    # Popular tweets
    c.Popular_tweets = True

    # Lowercasing tweets
    c.Lowercase = True

    # English only
    c.Lang = 'en'

    # Tweets until a specified date
    c.Until = until + " 00:00:00"
    
    # Making the results pandas friendly
    c.Pandas = True
    
    # Stopping print in terminal
    c.Hide_output = True

    # Searching
    twint.run.Search(c)
    
    # Assigning the DF
    df = twint.storage.panda.Tweets_df
    
    # Returning an empty DF if no tweets were found
    if len(df)<=0:
        return pd.DataFrame()
    
    # Formatting the date
    df['date'] = df['date'].apply(lambda x: x.split(" ")[0])
    
    return df