psypherpunk/python-tweet-archive

Archive tweets to WARC files.

python-tweet-archive

Archive tweets to WARC files.

This relies on python-warcwriterpool which should be installed beforehand.

To install simply clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/ukwa/python-tweet-archive.git

For OAuth authentication, a new app. will have to be registered at https://dev.twitter.com/ and the corresponding details updated in settings.py. After that, to install run:

pip install ./python-tweet-archive

This should handle the dependencies.After that you can simply run it from a command line:

usage: archiver.py [-h] [-u USERS] [-t TERMS]

Archiving tweets.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERS, --users USERS
                       Comma-separated list of users to follow.
  -t TERMS, --terms TERMS
                        Comma-separated list of terms to track.

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