def find_matching_tweets(num_tweets=100,
fname="matching_tweets.csv",
shownum=50):
"""Given the number of tweets to retrieve, queries that number of tweets with
the keyword "Trump" and saves the tweet id and text as a csv file "fname". Prints
out the shownum amount of tweets using panda. Does not remove retweets."""
oauth = credsfromfile()
# create and register a streamer
client = Streamer(**oauth)
writer = TweetWriter(limit=num_tweets)
client.register(writer)
# get the name of the newly-created json file
input_file = writer.timestamped_file()
client.filter(track="trump") # case-insensitive
client.sample()
with open(input_file) as fp:
# these two fields for now
json2csv(fp, fname, [
'id',
'text',
])
# pretty print using pandas
tweets = pd.read_csv(fname, encoding="utf8")
return tweets.head(shownum)
def tracktoscreen_demo(track="taylor swift", limit=10):
"""
Track keywords from the public Streaming API and send output to terminal.
"""
oauth = credsfromfile()
client = Streamer(**oauth)
client.register(TweetViewer(limit=limit))
client.filter(track=track)
def tracktoscreen_demo(track="taylor swift", limit=10):
"""
Track keywords from the public Streaming API and send output to terminal.
"""
oauth = credsfromfile()
client = Streamer(**oauth)
client.register(TweetViewer(limit=limit))
client.filter(track=track)
print("Importing")
from DangerTweetWriter import DangerTweetWriter
from nltk.twitter import Streamer, credsfromfile
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
print("Building auth")
oauth = credsfromfile()
twitterPass = ""
alreadyAdded = []
stopWords = set(stopwords.words('english'))
for phrase in DangerTweetWriter.dangerPhrases:
split = phrase.split(" ")
for word in split:
if (word not in alreadyAdded and word not in stopWords):
if (len(alreadyAdded) > 0):
twitterPass = twitterPass + ", "
twitterPass = twitterPass + word
alreadyAdded.append(word)
print("Words to pass to Twitter's filter: " + twitterPass)
client = Streamer(**oauth)
client.register(DangerTweetWriter(10))
print("Attempting to stream")
client.filter(twitterPass)
