This is a python script to crawl account properties and tweets for a given twitter handle.
Twitter crawler uses tweepy and wget libraries.
pip2 install -r requirements.txt
First, create a Twitter app on the developer portal, create a file "twitter.conf" in the repository directory and copy the required information in it. See below for the format of "twitter.conf" file:
api_key = "your_api_key"
api_secret_key = "your_api_secret_key"
access_token = "your_access_token"
access_token_secret = "your_access_token_secret"
The API keys can be found when creating an App in the Twitter developer portal.
Next, you can run Twitter crawler as follows:
python crawler.py target_twitter_handle download_full_path
Kudos to kjahan for the inspiration.
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