/twirpbot

API for data collection in twitter. Developed as part of a bot detection project.

Primary LanguagePythonGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Twirpbot-API

TwirpbotAPI is a Python API for data collection from Twitter. It provides an interface to query account specific data. It makes use of Twython to retrieve the data. Developed with the aim to help beginners in data collection from twitter. It has many useful functionalities as of now. The project is still under development.

Install

    git clone https://github.com/cozpii/twirpbot.git
    cd twirpbot
    sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Set tokens in the file tokens
  • Set the path to the tokens file in /twirpbot/utils.py
    sudo pip install .

Usage

Sample scripts can be found in the tests folder

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