twitter-scraper-without-api 0.0.4

twitter_scraper without API

Twitter scraper selenium

Python's package to scrap Twitter's front-end easily with selenium.

Twitter_scraper_without_API

this codes were developed to extract information from the twitter without using API as there are a limitation and costs for using official twitter API. yu can extract based on your keyword and time frame (in minutes). you can extract unlimitted number of twittes.

Pre-requests

• Python 3.6+
• Browsers(Firefox)

Instalation

you can install from source code using

git clone https://github.com/HamedMinaeizaeim/twitter_scraper_without_API.git

and then run

Python setup.py install 

or you can run

pip install -r requirements.txt

alternatively, you can in stall using PyPl :

 pip install twitter_scraper_without_API

How to use

to use this library, you just need to import the TwitterScrapper scrapper class and then specify your keyword search. By default, it will return all twitter within a minute. you can change it to extract twitts in the last n minutes. Here is a code to do that:

 from src.twitter_scraper import TwitterScrapper
 twitter = TwitterScrapper('bitcoin')
 twitter.last_n_mins = 3
 twitter.fetch_data()

Export option

you can export data as json, panda (Dataframe) and csv

df = twitter.store_data('dataFrame')
csv = twitter.store_data('csv')
json = twitter.store_data('json')

Privacy

there is no issue with privacy in this library and search is based on publicly avaialble information