A tool for fetching twitter profile, follower and friend info for SoMA

currently requires a redis database to write it's intermediate results too

TODO: turn this into a process that requires less manual intervention so that panelist data can be continuously updated

virtualenv env
. env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

# install redis
apt-get install redis-server
# or
brew install redis

It needs a config.ini file (look at config.ini.example) to give it a twitter api account and to tell it which redis server/database to connect to

[twitter]
consumer_key = client key value
consumer_secret = client secret value
access_token = token
access_token_secret = token secret

[redis]
host = localhost
port = 6379
db = 0

collect.py will take a newline separated list of twitter names and collect profile, followers and friend ids, it will take a while unless you have a less rate limited twitter account

python collect.py list-of-twitter-names.txt

output.py will write out lines of json represening the panelist info for SoMA and also write out a list of twitter names where it couldn't collect some of the data it needs a mapping of twitter screen names to yougov panelist ids (a previous panel_default.json will suffice or a csv of [screen_name, id] rows)

python output.py panel.json mapping_for_yougov_id.[csv,json] missing-names.txt

This uses the panoptic proxy provided by beta.pulse.yougov.com, access to the us panoptic is trickier at the moment.

open an ssh connection to the alab-pulse1 machine and set up a socks proxy to port 8050

# connect to yougov vpn and then set up this proxy
ssh -ND 8050 username@alab-pulse1
# in another terminal
python us_output.py us_panel.json mapping_for_yougov_id.csv missing-us-names.txt