Fetch and Store Tweets

This python script is used to fetch the required number of tweets of a particular Hashtag through your twitter account and generates an .csv file.

Prerequisites

1. You need any Python IDE to run this script. You can visit here to download the latest version of Python based on your operating System.

2. Next to execute this script you have to get the API keys from twitter developer account by creating an app at Twitter developer account. For creating an app at Twitter developer account you have to follow the below steps

   Step1:

   Visit Twitter Developer Account Website and click on Create app as shown below

   

   Step2:

   Click on Apply

   

   Step3:

   Based on your choice select the Reason for using twitter developer tools and Click on Next

Step4:

Enter your country and what you would you call and Click on Next

Step5:

Now Carefully read the questions and answer all the questions as per the requirement. Because based on you answer only the account approval will be taken place

Step6:

If your account successfully approved you can come to homepage Twitter developer account and now click on Create an app icon on the right top.

Note: sometimes it takes time to approval of the developer account based on step-5 answers

Step7:

Fill the require fields and click on Create

Step8:

After creating the App click on Keys and tokens option you will observe Consumer and Access token keys. Copy them and paste them in the python script

How to run the script

1. Save the script in the local machine.

2. Update the API and Access token Keys in the Python script which generated in step8

3. Open a terminal/command prompt and change directory location to the folder where your script is located and run the below commands

   1. To install required packages run the below command

      pip install -r requirements.txt

   2. To execute the script run the following command

      python fetch_store_tweet.py 

   After successful execution of the script you should observe the below output in command prompt/terminal as well as one .csv file with the required number of tweets will be generated.

   

   Final generated tweets in.csv file output

   

Author Name

Kushal Agrawal