twarc-hashtags 0.0.2

A twarc plugin to extract hashtags from Twitter data

twarc-hashtags

This module is extends twarc with a hashtags command that will extract and count the hashtags in a tweet dataset.

Install

pip install twarc-hashtags

Now you can collect data using the core twarc utility:

twarc2 search blacklivesmatter tweets.jsonl

And you have a new subcommand hashtags:

twarc2 hashtags tweets.jsonl hashtags.csv

Then you can open hashtags.csv in your favourite spreadsheet program or DataFrame library.

Behind the scenes twarc-hashtags uses Python's native support for SQLite to create a database and then insert/query it. You can see this database after the program finishes as hashtags.db in your current working directory.