Found a good library "Tweepy (# https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy )"
The Sample code is now compatible with Python3.
Step 1: Install Tweepy
pip install tweepy
Collecting tweepy
Downloading tweepy-3.5.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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Installing collected packages: tweepy
Successfully installed tweepy-3.5.0
# !/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import tweepy
import csv
# Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""
def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
# Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method
# authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
# initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
alltweets = []
# make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=screen_name, count=200)
# save most recent tweets
alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
# save the id of the oldest tweet less one
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
# keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
while len(new_tweets) > 0:
print("getting tweets before %s" % (oldest))
# all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name=screen_name, count=200, max_id=oldest)
# save most recent tweets
alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
# update the id of the oldest tweet less one
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
print("...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets)))
# transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv
outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")] for tweet in alltweets]
# write the csv
with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'w') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["id", "created_at", "text"])
writer.writerows(outtweets)
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
get_all_tweets("twitter Username")
Reference: https://gist.github.com/yanofsky/5436496
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