ptdc 1.3.6

Import modules

from ptdc import authenticate, AccountCollector, OnlineStreamer, StatusCollector

Define tokens

Replace the following tokens with yours, see Twitter developers authentication for more details about how obtain them.

consumer_key = "xxxxxxxxxxx"
consumer_key_secret = "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
access_token = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
access_token_secret = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Create the default Tweepy API object of tweepy

api = authenticate(consumer_key=consumer_key, consumer_key_secret=consumer_key_secret, access_token=access_token, access_token_secret=access_token_secret)

Create your own Collectors for collecting data

Create your own StatusCollector object

s_collector = StatusCollector(api=api)

Create your own AccountCollector object, which will collect also statuses

collector = AccountCollector(api=api, statuses_collector=s_collector)

Create the Streamer

Create Online Streamer that will collect data (in this case will collect only 5 accounts)

streamer = OnlineStreamer(api=api, collector=collector, data_limit=5, n_statuses=400)

Start streaming

You can start streaming in all ways defined by Tweepy, see its doc for more details

streamer.stream(track=['famous', 'web', 'vip', 'holiday', 'pic', 'photo'], is_async=False)

Save dataset/s

After streaming ended (in according to your defined limits), save DataFrame/s generated into csv file/s. You just need to access the collector object and call the save_dataset method providing the path.

streamer.collector.save_dataset(path="../data/accounts.csv")