0-twitter_analysis.py

from tweepy import OAuthHandler, API
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
from textblob import TextBlob

import re
import json

class TwitterClient(object):

    def __init__(self):
        config = None
        with open('config.json') as c:
            config = json.load(c)
        self.auth = OAuthHandler(config['api_key'], config['secret_key']) 
        self.auth.set_access_token(config['access_token'], config['secret_token']) 
        self.api = API(self.auth)

    def get_tweets(self, query, count = 10):
        return self.api.search(q = query, count = count) 

def clean(text):
    return ' '.join([w for w in re.sub(r"(@[A-Za-z0-9]+)|([^0-9A-Za-z \t])|(\w+:\/\/\S+)", " ", text).split() \
                if w not in stopwords.words('english')]) 

def get_sentiment(text):
    analysis = TextBlob(clean(text))
    return analysis.sentiment.polarity

def overall_sentiment_about(query, count = 10):
    client = TwitterClient()
    tweets = client.get_tweets(query, count)
    return sum([get_sentiment(tweet.text) for tweet in tweets])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print("Please, provide the term to query")
        exit(1)
    
    query = sys.argv[1]
    
    count = 10
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
        count = sys.argv[2]

    print(overall_sentiment_about(query, count))

README.md

Installation and configuration

$ python -m venv env
$ source ./env/bin/activate
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python -m textblob.download_corpora
$ python

import nltk
nltk.download() # follow the steps in the GUI view
exit()

$ python 0-twitter_analysis.py python 2000

config.json

{
    "api_key": "xxx",
    "secret_key": "xxx",
    "access_token": "xxx",
    "secret_token": "xxx"
}

requirements.txt

astroid==2.1.0
certifi==2018.11.29
chardet==3.0.4
idna==2.8
isort==4.3.4
lazy-object-proxy==1.3.1
mccabe==0.6.1
nltk==3.4
oauthlib==2.1.0
pylint==2.2.2
PySocks==1.6.8
requests==2.21.0
requests-oauthlib==1.1.0
singledispatch==3.4.0.3
six==1.12.0
textblob==0.15.2
tweepy==3.7.0
typed-ast==1.1.1
urllib3==1.24.1
wrapt==1.10.11