ideoforms / python-twitter-examples

Examples of using Python for Twitter social data mining, using the python-twitter-tools framework.

Python Twitter Examples

A set of Python scripts to demonstrate interactions with the Twitter API via the Python Twitter Tools module.

Usage

These examples require Python 3. To install prerequisites:

pip install -r requirements.txt

You will need to authenticate with Twitter to use these scripts. To do so, sign up for developer credentials:

https://apps.twitter.com/

You can create access credentials directly through Twitter's web interface, authorized under the username you used to create the app.

If you want your application to act on behalf of other users (for example, to post on behalf of several usernames), you'll need to authorize each separately. To be guided through this process, run:

python twitter-authorize.py

Then add your consumer and access tokens to config.py.

History

This collection was first developed for a 2012 laboratory in social data mining for the MA/MSc Digital Sociology, Digital Journalism and Creating Social Media courses at the Centre for Creative and Social Technology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Daniel Jones <[email protected]>
http://www.erase.net

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python-twitter-examples's Issues

Set the number of results to return in a search

This script works great, but for a given hashtag, only returns 15 results. Where can I identify the syntax to expand the number of results, or limit the tweets since an id?

Rate Limit Handle

Hello Everyone,

I read the twitter Rest api documentation of the maximum api request in 15 min window.
What i would like to know is how to spot the rate limit at first. and how to prevent it later on by using time.sleep method perhaps or something similar

Thanks in advance!

Number of friends

Hi!

According to this script ( https://github.com/ideoforms/python-twitter-examples/blob/master/twitter-friends.py ) I have 944 friends. This is right ( https://twitter.com/ADssx ). But it actually only prints 924 friends (I only added an index i then print i \ i=i+1).

Thanks for any help you can provide.

continuation to the above query #5.. twitter-friends.py

I got an error message claiming that my account is suspended after running this script..

Is there anything this script got to do or is there anything that i could have possible done wrong ??

Thanks in advance

Cannot find module 'twitter'

Hi, I wanted to execute the twitter-search-geo.py file but I get an error which says 'no module named twitter' even though I have the twitter module in my Scripts directory. I'm using Spyder 3.3.1 on Windows 10. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

twitter.trends.place(_id = 23424975) is timing out

I am using python 2.7.6 version and the call to get the trends twitter.trends.place(_id = 23424975) is timing out.

403: Please use V2 filtered and sample volume stream as alternatives

Hi,

Getting the error Please use V2 filtered and sample volume stream as alternatives while using twitter-stream-search.py.Any alternative to resolve the same

twitter-friends.py

hi. when i execute twitter-friends.py i am getting as 1043 friends. but my account is a relatively new account. what does friends mean?. i have just one follower.

and i get this after running it.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitter-friends.py", line 17, in
exec("config.py", config)
File "", line 1, in
NameError: name 'config' is not defined
hduser@localhost:$ vi twitter-friends.py
hduser@localhost:$ python twitter-friends.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitter-friends.py", line 18, in
exec("config.py".read(), config)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'
hduser@localhost:$ vi twitter-friends.py
hduser@localhost:$ python twitter-friends.py
found 1043 friends
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 319, in _handle_response
handle = urllib_request.urlopen(req, **kwargs)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 223, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 532, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 642, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 570, in error
return self._call_chain(*args)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 650, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitter-friends.py", line 62, in
subquery = twitter.users.lookup(user_id = ids)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 312, in call
return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
File "/home/hduser/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/twitter/api.py", line 345, in _handle_response
raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, self.format, arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 403 for URL: 1.1/users/lookup.json using parameters: (oauth_consumer_key=9BPT2QqaGyV9ZvSGwjhVMqMMC&oauth_nonce=9450269275235606841&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1497530423&oauth_token=2983687160-UrIWQUZK5bbNY9e3Xx9GNZe1OfnUSuE1y3NwF0L&oauth_version=1.0&user_id=%5B1541364193%2C%20378152930%2C%201001674602%2C%2046407661%2C%20338174945%2C%204256170955%2C%2076025806%2C%20128334909%2C%204766003668%2C%20472364403%2C%20776725314%2C%20113168001%2C%20839066041208700929%2C%204258018137%2C%20325766424%2C%201595809370%2C%2022277505%2C%20137118269%2C%20397420741%2C%20367331132%2C%2037489372%2C%203299192225%2C%2018505218%2C%2017090112%2C%20629133%2C%20427696547%2C%202289160027%2C%202976625727%2C%20738538436%2C%20813286%2C%20824473943931293697%2C%2044401576%2C%202999158160%2C%203240143771%2C%202354677800%2C%20237920763%2C%20724171756198608896%2C%20140474586%2C%204661872176%2C%204435227552%2C%20728208660887949313%2C%206792522%2C%201473686120%2C%20160952087%2C%2084038687%2C%20732649152807469056%2C%202869819060%2C%201395320539%2C%201689419970%2C%20510782766%2C%203051229241%2C%20522519631%2C%20756124634186125316%2C%20117115913%2C%202928256157%2C%20710433071313625090%2C%20163689916%2C%20251293035%2C%2015862718%2C%20108140114%2C%20891363019%2C%20222834258%2C%2040931468%2C%203303552016%2C%20741195905685172225%2C%203723167245%2C%20726132381615296512%2C%202907774137%2C%2021588148%2C%2017618048%2C%20226424062%2C%202571133226%2C%202818053218%2C%20278134862%2C%20534637926%2C%204305615136%2C%20245548093%2C%2015178534%2C%202201413052%2C%20519419544%2C%20514396066%2C%201294741%2C%2019587466%2C%203364327647%2C%202360459340%2C%20779416353019203584%2C%20123395124%2C%20733813%2C%20741199962474741760%2C%2030149760%2C%20410034621%2C%20249319425%2C%201191261350%2C%2084623872%2C%202505504208%2C%203107896458%2C%2028406270%2C%20741205276905377797%2C%20105826626%2C%203571233797%5D&oauth_signature=ikUP0TaAbOuyisJsy7r0ysasp%2FA%3D)
details: {'errors': [{'code': 64, 'message': 'Your account is suspended and is not permitted to access this feature.'}]}

Any help would be appreciated

Error in twitter-list-lists.py

Hello,
I am running python 2.7 and 3.5. I also have Anaconda3 installed. In any version I am getting this error:
/media/sf_Temp/python-twitter-examples$ python /media/sf_Temp/python-twitter-examples/twitter-list-lists.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/media/sf_Temp/python-twitter-examples/twitter-list-lists.py", line 23, in
twitter = Twitter(auth=OAuth(config["access_key"], config["access_secret"], config["consumer_key"], config["consumer_secret"]))
NameError: name 'Twitter' is not defined

I cloned your examples to try and learn more about the Twitter api. So I want to run the scripts as is, before hacking around on them.

Any thoughts as to why this is throwing this error?
Thanks