tweet-searcher
This library bypass limitations of the Twitter Official API
Inspired by https://github.com/Jefferson-Henrique/GetOldTweets-python
Instalation
pip install tweetsearcher
Usage
Simple download 200 on the search query "trump" since 2017-01-01 and until 2018-01-01:
from tweetsearcher import TweetSearcher
searcher = TweetSearcher()
tweets, cursor = searcher.get_tweets('trump', since='2017-01-01', until='2018-01-01', max_tweets=200)
print(tweets, cursor)If you want to save tweets to csv:
from tweetsearcher import TweetSearcher
searcher = TweetSearcher()
tweets, cursor = searcher.tweets_to_csv('trump', since='2017-01-01', until='2018-01-01', max_tweets=200)
print(tweets, cursor)With proxy:
from tweetsearcher import TweetSearcher
searcher = TweetSearcher(proxy='socks5h://60.50.251.54:8181')
tweets, cursor = searcher.tweets_to_csv('trump', since='2017-01-01', until='2018-01-01', max_tweets=200)
print(tweets, cursor)Custom headers:
searcher = TweetSearcher(headers={
'Host': "twitter.com",
'User-Agent': 'Chrome/66.0.3359.181',
'Accept': "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01",
'Accept-Language': "de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3",
'X-Requested-With': "XMLHttpRequest",
'Connection': "keep-alive"
})To prevent the ban after downloading each page, the process sleeps for a while:
searcher = TweetSearcher(delay_min=1, delay_max=3)
