Twitter bot

Twitter bot scrapes all the tweets from twitter which contains a search term provided by the user. The program retrieves the following from a tweet:

• Name of user
• Username
• Tweet itself
• Retweet count
• Likes count

All the data is saved in a csv file.

Installation

Prerequisites

Python

https://www.python.org/

Selenium

pip install selenium 

Chrome web driver

• Check your chrome version

chrome://version

• Download the chrome driver matching your version

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

Steps

1. Clone this repository

   git@github.com:ckigenk/Twitter-bot.git
   

2. Edit the bot/constants.py file:

   • PATH = copy the path to your chrome driver
   • USERNAME = your twitter username
   • PASSWORD = your twitter password
   • SEARCH_TERM = what you want to search, any term or hashtag

    PATH = r"" 
    URL="https://twitter.com/i/flow/login"
    USERNAME=""
    PASSWORD=""
    SEARCH_TERM=""
   

3. Run the main.py file

   python main.py
   

Sample output

Screenshot of csv file containng tweet data