I have found a python script for extracting tweets and store to csv file. I am not familiar with python yet. Except the tweets, I need also to extract the date and the time of each tweet. I have found how to extract other characteristics, such as "retweeted", "retweet_count", but I am still stuck in date and time. The script is here:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8
import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
import csv
#Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = "..........................."
consumer_secret = "..........................."
access_key = "..........................."
access_secret = "..........................."
screename = "@realDonaldTrump"
def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
#Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method
#authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret )
auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
#initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
alltweets = []
#make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screename ,count=200)
screen_name = "Donald J. Trump"
#save most recent tweets
alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
#save the id of the oldest tweet less one
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
#keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
while len(new_tweets) > 0:
print "getting tweets before %s" % (oldest)
#all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screename,count=200,max_id=oldest)
#save most recent tweets
alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
#update the id of the oldest tweet less one
oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
print "...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))
#transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv
outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8"), tweet.favorite_count, tweet.retweet_count, tweet.favorited, tweet.retweeted] for tweet in alltweets]
#write the csv
with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name , 'wb') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text","favorite_count","retweet_count","favorited","retweeted"])
writer.writerows(outtweets)
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
#pass in the username of the account you want to download
get_all_tweets(screename)
The tweepy tweet model has created_at :
created_at
Creation time of the Tweet.
Type
datetime.datetime | None
Interesting fact is that you can derive the time from the tweet id. Tweet IDs are k-sorted within a second bound. We can extract the timestamp for a tweet ID by right shifting the tweet ID by 22 bits and adding the Twitter epoch time of 1288834974657.
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