Automate Twitter Stream data collection
Project description
Twistream: Twitter Stream API data collection
Twistream helps you automatically collect and store data from Twitter Stream API.
Installation
From source:
git clone https://github.com/guillermo-carrasco/twistream.git
cd twistream
pip install .
From PyPi:
pip install twistream
Setting up
You need your twitter credentials in order to be able to use Twitter API. For that, create an application here. Once created, create a configuration file and add the credentials there:
~> cat ~/.twistream/twistream.yml
twitter:
consumer_key: your_consumer_key
consumer_secret: your_consumer_secret
access_token_key: your_access_token_key
access_token_secret: your_access_token_secret
backend: backend_name
backend_params:
username: db_username
password: db_password
Different backends
Right now twistream only supports sqlite, the backend and backend sections in your configuration file should look like this:
backend: sqlite
backend_params:
db: /path/to/your/db
Usage
Once you have createed the configuration file, just execute:
twistream --hashtags hashtags,to,follow
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