/pumpy

A Twitter pump, for research purpose. Build on Tweepy shoulders.

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Pumpy

A Twitter pump, for research purpose. Build on Tweepy shoulders.

This repo provides tools to:

  • Get past data from tweet ids.
  • Get data through the Twitter's streaming interface.
  • Convert tweets in an invalid JSON format into a valid one.

Instructions

  • Pumpy requires MongoDB for database storage (see MongoDB install to install).
  • git clone https://github.com/Kydlaw/pumpy.git
  • Install dependancies from requirements.txt (pip install -r requirements.txt). Use of a python virtual environment is prefered.
  • Modify the wanted parameters in main.py
  • Launch the script with python main.py
  • ... should works, somehow, maybe? who knows?