README.md

A simple command line tool for Data Scientists to scrape tweets without using the Twitter API.

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Tools and libraries used

• typer
• pandas
• snscrape

How to use

1. Clone the repository into your local machine.

   git clone https://github.com/Dipankar-Medhi/tscrape.git
   

2. Make a virtual environemnt.

   python -m venv venv
   

3. Activate the virtual environment

   venv/Scripts/activate
   

4. Install the dependencies.

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Open a terminal inside the current directory and run

   $ python main.py
   

6. Enter the optional arguments.

   $ python main.py
   
   Enter the keyword: <keyword>
   Tweets by username: <username>
   Username mentioned in the tweets: <mentioned-usermane>
   Scrape since: <start-date>
   Scrape till: <end-date>
   Number of tweets to scrape: <tweets-number>
   Name of the file: <output-file-name.csv>
   

7. All the downloaded tweets will be saved inside the data directory as csv files.

8. CSV file contains the date, username and tweets columns.