These scripts authenticate with the new API through a BEARER_TOKEN and handle pagination and rate-limiting.
The end result is a stream or file of line-delimited JSON representing a tweet object that is similar to the old API. It will embed user objects and additional includes into tweets as needed.
These scripts unpack and recombine metadata with individual tweets.
$ ./query.py [--token] QUERY_CONFIG_FILE
So, to run with the default query_config.yaml file:
$ ./query.py ./query_config.yaml
query_config.yaml is a sample configuration file. The program can read query configurations in either YAML or JSON format.
See the Examples and Debugging Notebook for examples on how you can use this within a notebook or other scripts.