TwitterAgent

simple twitter agent to help collect tweets for our Data set

Requirements

you need to make a simple config.json file with this structure
those credentials can be optained after creating an app in https://apps.twitter.com

{
	"consumer_key": "",
	"consumer_secret": "",

	"access_token":"",
	"access_token_secret":""
}

and pass it to the TwitterAgent object

agent = TwitterAgent("config.json")

Example usage

import TwitterAgent
agent = TwitterAgent.TwitterAgent()
# get a sample stream of tweets
agent.get_sample_tweets_stream()
# search for tweets with specific keywords
agent.search_for_tweets_with_keywords(['play'], num_per_keyword=100)
# get stream data with specific keywords (emoji)
agent.get_tweets_stream_with_keywords(['\U0001F602'])
# get stream data with specific keywords (multiple keywords)
agent.get_tweets_stream_with_keywords(['the are'])