Python scripts for the collection and transformations of datasets from Twitter
THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY NONFUNCTION AND IS NOW DISCONTINUED DUE TO API CHANGES AT TWITTER ALONG WITH LEGAL CONCERNS
All JSON is expected to follow and be from twarc captures using grabuser.sh.
For doing mass lookups and capture of an accounts followers by Account ID and following by Account ID, the Account IDs only API can pull considerable more accounts within the call limits than the normal calls with account MetaData. This is also true for lookup users call, allowing large amounts of MetaData to be queried by Account ID. Temporarily caching these lookups can drastically increase speed and lower the amount of requests needed to the Twitter API. This allows the capture of accounts with followers and following in the millions with ease.
The twarc utility and python library handles and is designed to be used this way, as it is with a focus on Social Media Analysis, which makes it perfect for this application. The more common tweepy python library has a bug preventing pulling more than one frame from the Account ID based calls.
- fetchdata-justids.py - Takes JSON list as input and fetches the IDs of followers/following, output to directory.
- ids2json.py - Converts directory of IDs to JSON, using Redis to cache looked up accounts.
- loadredis.py - Loads a JSON list of accounts into Redis.
- dumpredis.py - Dumps all the Twitter accounts from redis to redis.json.xz
- json2csv_user_directory.py - Converts directory of JSON lists of accounts to csv format
- json2csv_user.py - Convert a JSON list of accounts to CSV format.
- jsondiff.py - Compares two JSON lists of accounts for differences, and displays them.
- jsonsame.py - Compares two JSON lists of accounts, and displays entries that are the same.
- status2csv.py - Takes output of twarc's timeline command and produces a csv of every tweet.
- json2urls.py - Takes output of twarc's timeline command and produces URLs for every tweet.
- grabuser.sh - Grabs the IDs and Metadata in JSON of an account's followers and following.
- stats.py - Calculate and show basic account stats from JSON list of accounts
The Twitter API Keys is stored as standard JSON file with the following format.
{
"Screen_Name":"XXX",
"Consumer_Key":"XXX",
"Consumer_Secret":"XXX",
"Access_Token":"XXX",
"Access_Secret":"XXX"
}
This should be in ~/.twitter_config
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