MatthewWolff/TwitterScraper

TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

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Deleted user commented

Hi. I created a Twitter developer's account, and filled in the details to api_key.py and removed the (example) portion. Running the script outputs this error:

  File "./scrape.py", line 105
    window_start, ids = start, set()
                                   ^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

I'm not sure what the problem is. I installed all the requirements, but for the Chrome webdriver, which resulted in a bunch of errors. But I have vanilla Google Chrome, and un-Googled Chromium installed, as well as vanilla Firefox. Using Linux Mint 19.3.

MatthewWolff commented

Thanks for the heads up. Had some weird unicode characters that I deleted before the last commit, didn't realize they messed with indentation. Fixed and pushed.

Deleted user commented

The previous issue is fixed, but I encounter another error when it attempts to scrape Tweets:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
    stdin=PIPE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 729, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1364, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'chromedriver': 'chromedriver'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./scrape.py", line 204, in <module>
    user.scrape(begin, end, args.by, args.delay)
  File "./scrape.py", line 83, in scrape
    self.__find_tweets(start, end, by, loading_delay)
  File "./scrape.py", line 101, in __find_tweets
    with webdriver.Chrome() as driver:  # options are Chrome(), Firefox(), Safari()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 83, in start
    os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
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MatthewWolff commented

did you change the code to not use chromedriver? you’ll have to edit the file itself for that, specifically line 101. If that doesn’t fix the problem, you should open a separate issue

Deleted user commented

Line 101 is: with webdriver.Chrome() as driver: # options are Chrome(), Firefox(), Safari()

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