Get Old Tweets

A python script getting old Tweets via the Twitter API.

ONLY > PYTHON 3.7

Components

• Tweet: Model class to give some informations about a specific tweet.

  • id (str)
  • permalink (str)
  • username (str)
  • text (str)
  • date (date)
  • retweets (int)
  • favorites (int)
  • mentions (str)
  • hashtags (str)
  • emojis (str)
  • emoji_value
  • geo (str)

• TweetManager: A manager class to help getting tweets in Tweet's model.

  • getTweets (TwitterCriteria): Return the list of tweets retrieved by using an instance of TwitterCriteria.

• TwitterCriteria: A collection of search parameters to be used together with TweetManager.

  • setUsername (str): An optional specific username from a twitter account. Without "@".
  • setSince (str. "yyyy-mm-dd"): A lower bound date to restrict search.
  • setUntil (str. "yyyy-mm-dd"): An upper bound date to restrist search.
  • setQuerySearch (str): A query text to be matched.
  • setTopTweets (bool): If True only the Top Tweets will be retrieved.
  • setNear(str): A reference location area from where tweets were generated.
  • setWithin (str): A distance radius from "near" location (e.g. 15mi).
  • setMaxTweets (int): The maximum number of tweets to be retrieved. If this number is unsetted or lower than 1 all possible tweets will be retrieved.

• Main: Examples of how to use.

• Exporter: Export tweets to a csv file named "tweets.csv" (separated by "∆") and stores the file on Desktop