twarc-csv 0.1.0

A twarc plugin to output Twitter data as CSV

twarc-csv

This module adds CSV Export for Tweets to twarc.

Make sure twarc is installed and configured:

pip install twarc
twarc2 configure

Install this plugin:

pip install twarc-csv

A new csv command will be available in twarc. If you have collected some tweets in a file tweets.jsonl you can now convert them to CSV

twarc2 search --limit 500 "blacklivesmatter" tweets.jsonl # collect some tweets
twarc2 csv tweets.jsonl tweets.csv # convert to CSV

Issues with Twitter Data in CSV

CSV isn't the best choice for storing twitter data. Always keep the original API responses, and perform feature extraction on json objects.

This export script is intended for convenience, for importing samples of data into other tools. The work in progress script does not expose any customizations or configuration yet, there are many ways to format a CSV of tweets, and this is just one way.

Contributing

Suggestions, opinions, and pull requests welcome and encouraged. Even if you are just interested in using this plugin, post your use case in the Issues.