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hansolo
hansolo

Reputation: 973

Tweepy - API.Search

I want to be able to run a search for keywords (ContinuousDelivery in this example) and have it return the date created, text and screen name of tweets containing the keyword and store it into a CSV which will ultimately be ported to a relational database.

  1. I can get the created and text but not the screen name with code below.

  2. I am also wondering how I can be sure I am getting all of the results pursuant to my request.

I have looked at Twitter API documentation and the tweepy GitHub but neither has got me far. 

# --OAuth Headers omitted--

api = tweepy.API(auth)
# Open/Create a file to append data
csvFile = open('result17.csv', 'a')
#Use csv Writer
csvWriter = csv.writer(csvFile)

 for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, 
                q="ContinuousDelivery", 
                #since="2014-02-14", 
                #until="2014-02-15", 
                lang="en").items(5000000):
#Write a row to the csv file/ I use encode utf-8
csvWriter.writerow([tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode('utf-8'), tweet.screen_name])
print tweet.created_at, tweet.text, tweet.screen_name
csvFile.close()

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2725

Answers (1)

Yuri Schimke
Yuri Schimke

Reputation: 13448

To get the author's screenname use tweet.author.screen_name. The profile is it's own object inside the tweet.

Upvotes: 1

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