def main():
# Make stdout output UTF-8, preventing "'ascii' codec can't encode" errors
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)
# Parse and document command line options
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="")
parser.add_argument('--input', dest='screen_name_file', default="example_screen_names.txt",
help='A text file with one screen name per line.')
parser.add_argument('--token', dest='token_file', default=os.path.expanduser("~") + "/.trawler/default.yaml",
help='A configuration file with Twitter API access tokens. See example_token_file.yaml or twitter_oauth_settings.sample.py')
parser.add_argument('--output', dest='output', default='./',
help='Where to output the resulting data.')
args = parser.parse_args()
# Set up loggers and output directory
logger = get_console_info_logger()
output_directory = args.output
try:
if not os.path.exists(output_directory):
os.makedirs(output_directory)
except:
print "Could not create directory:", directory
exit(0)
logger.info("Created directory: %s" % output_directory)
# Set up API access
if args.token_file.endswith('yaml'):
#YAML file
tokens = yaml.safe_load(open(args.token_file))
elif args.token_file.endswith('py'):
#.py file -- surely there is a better way to do this
tokens = {}
for line in open(args.token_file):
k,v = [x.strip() for x in line.split("=")]
tokens[k] = v[1:-1]
else:
raise "Unrecognized token file type -- please use a .yaml or .py file following the examples"
twython = get_connection( tokens['consumer_key'], tokens['consumer_secret'])
crawler = get_timeline_crawler( twython, logger=logger)
# Gather unique screen names
screen_names = get_screen_names_from_file(args.screen_name_file)
# Gather tweets for each of the unique screen names
# NB: in production, one should use `id` as an identifier (which does not change)
# rather than the `screen_name`, which can be changed at the users's whim.
for screen_name in screen_names:
tweet_filename = output_directory + screen_name + ".tweets.gz"
if os.path.exists(tweet_filename):
logger.info("File '%s' already exists - will not attempt to download Tweets for '%s'" % (tweet_filename, screen_name))
else:
tweets = crawler.get_all_timeline_tweets_for_screen_name( screen_name )
#Write them out as one-JSON-object-per-line in a gzipped file
save_tweets_to_json_file(tweets, tweet_filename)
def main():
# Make stdout output UTF-8, preventing "'ascii' codec can't encode" errors
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="")
parser.add_argument('id_file')
args = parser.parse_args()
logger = get_console_info_logger()
#ACCESS_TOKEN = Twython(consumer_key, consumer_secret, oauth_version=2).obtain_access_token()
twython = get_connection(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
#crawler = RateLimitedTwitterEndpoint(twython, "statuses/user_timeline", logger)
crawler = get_timeline_crawler(twython, logger)
ids = get_ids_from_file(args.id_file)
for user_id in ids:
tweet_filename = "%s.tweets" % user_id
if os.path.exists(tweet_filename):
logger.info(
"File '%s' already exists - will not attempt to download Tweets for '%s'"
% (tweet_filename, user_id))
else:
try:
tweets = crawler.get_most_recent_tweets_by_id(user_id)
except TwythonError as e:
print "TwythonError: %s" % e
if e.error_code == 404:
logger.warn(
"HTTP 404 error - Most likely, Twitter user '%s' no longer exists"
% screen_name)
elif e.error_code == 401:
logger.warn(
"HTTP 401 error - Most likely, Twitter user '%s' no longer publicly accessible"
% screen_name)
else:
# Unhandled exception
raise e
else:
save_tweets_to_json_file(tweets, 'testdata/%s.json' % user_id)
def main():
# Make stdout output UTF-8, preventing "'ascii' codec can't encode" errors
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="")
parser.add_argument('id_file')
args = parser.parse_args()
logger = get_console_info_logger()
#ACCESS_TOKEN = Twython(consumer_key, consumer_secret, oauth_version=2).obtain_access_token()
twython = get_connection( consumer_key, consumer_secret)
#crawler = RateLimitedTwitterEndpoint(twython, "statuses/user_timeline", logger)
crawler = get_timeline_crawler(twython, logger)
ids = get_ids_from_file(args.id_file)
for user_id in ids:
tweet_filename = "%s.tweets" % user_id
if os.path.exists(tweet_filename):
logger.info("File '%s' already exists - will not attempt to download Tweets for '%s'" % (tweet_filename, user_id))
else:
try:
tweets = crawler.get_most_recent_tweets_by_id( user_id )
except TwythonError as e:
print "TwythonError: %s" % e
if e.error_code == 404:
logger.warn("HTTP 404 error - Most likely, Twitter user '%s' no longer exists" % screen_name)
elif e.error_code == 401:
logger.warn("HTTP 401 error - Most likely, Twitter user '%s' no longer publicly accessible" % screen_name)
else:
# Unhandled exception
raise e
else:
save_tweets_to_json_file(tweets, 'testdata/%s.json' % user_id)
def main():
# Make stdout output UTF-8, preventing "'ascii' codec can't encode" errors
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)
# Parse and document command line options
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="")
parser.add_argument('--input',
dest='screen_name_file',
default="example_screen_names.txt",
help='A text file with one screen name per line.')
parser.add_argument(
'--token',
dest='token_file',
default=os.path.expanduser("~") + "/.trawler/default.yaml",
help=
'A configuration file with Twitter API access tokens. See example_token_file.yaml or twitter_oauth_settings.sample.py'
)
parser.add_argument('--output',
dest='output',
default='./',
help='Where to output the resulting data.')
args = parser.parse_args()
# Set up loggers and output directory
logger = get_console_info_logger()
output_directory = args.output
try:
if not os.path.exists(output_directory):
os.makedirs(output_directory)
except:
print "Could not create directory:", directory
exit(0)
logger.info("Created directory: %s" % output_directory)
# Set up API access
if args.token_file.endswith('yaml'):
#YAML file
tokens = yaml.safe_load(open(args.token_file))
elif args.token_file.endswith('py'):
#.py file -- surely there is a better way to do this
tokens = {}
for line in open(args.token_file):
k, v = [x.strip() for x in line.split("=")]
tokens[k] = v[1:-1]
else:
raise "Unrecognized token file type -- please use a .yaml or .py file following the examples"
twython = get_connection(tokens['consumer_key'], tokens['consumer_secret'])
crawler = get_timeline_crawler(twython, logger=logger)
# Gather unique screen names
screen_names = get_screen_names_from_file(args.screen_name_file)
# Gather tweets for each of the unique screen names
# NB: in production, one should use `id` as an identifier (which does not change)
# rather than the `screen_name`, which can be changed at the users's whim.
for screen_name in screen_names:
tweet_filename = output_directory + screen_name + ".tweets.gz"
if os.path.exists(tweet_filename):
logger.info(
"File '%s' already exists - will not attempt to download Tweets for '%s'"
% (tweet_filename, screen_name))
else:
tweets = crawler.get_all_timeline_tweets_for_screen_name(
screen_name)
#Write them out as one-JSON-object-per-line in a gzipped file
save_tweets_to_json_file(tweets, tweet_filename)