An Introductionary Python Twitter Scraper
The goal of this Twitter scraper is to serve as a learning example on how to use python to pull tweets from twitter and save them into a table for further analysis. This code is not exhaustive and some of the code is over simplified so as to show what is happening. I wanted to show fellow researchers an example of how they can code their own
Below are a list of prerequisites that are used in this software package. The code should work with different packages except for earlier versions of python (specifically 2.6 and earlier)
- MYSQL
- MYSQL Workbench (6.3.8)
- MYSQL Community Server (5.7.17)
- Python 3.x (3.6.0)
- Python packages
- Tweepy (0.7.9)
- PyMySQL (3.5.0)
- Python packages
- Twitter API