mahtDFR/bad_news_opinions

Scrapes tweets and presents them as opinion columns.

Fake news opinion column

Scrapes tweets from @anon_opin and presents them as opinion columns from The Guardian.

More samples here.

Prerequisites

• Python 3 (I used 3.8)
• Tweepy + API keys
• Requests
• Beautiful Soup
• Selenium ChromeDriver

Usage

• Install dependencies
• Add API keys to keys_blank.py and rename it to keys.py
• Make sure chromedriver.exe is placed in the working directory
• Run main.py from a terminal
• The script will scrape tweets and then dump 30 png images in a bad_opinions directory inside the current working directory

Tested in Windows 10 only.

Disclaimer: The content output by this does not reflect the opinions of the names presented. Or mine.

Acknowledgements

• B3ta for the idea