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Jenny Pham
Jenny Pham

Reputation: 181

Using twitterAPI to extract twitter data by premium search

I use TwitterAPI to extract twitter data, but I have an SyntaxError: invalid Syntax when I run python. I'm not a coding expert. Anyone can help me to figure out?´

 for page in api.request('tweets/search/%s/:%s' % (PRODUCT, LABEL), {'query'=keyword, count=200, include_rts=False, since=start_date}).pages(50):
       for status in page:
           new_entry = []
           status = status._json
``

Upvotes: 3

Views: 463

Answers (1)

Jonas
Jonas

Reputation: 4058

There are few problems with your code. Here is an improved version of it:

for status in api.request('tweets/search/%s/:%s' % (PRODUCT, LABEL), 
                          {'query'=keyword, 'count'=100, 'include_rts'=False, 'since'=start_date}):
    # "status" returned by api.request is already a json object
    # so you can print the screen name and text from the status like this:
    print(status['user']['screen_name'] + ":" + status['text'])

Outline of my changes:

I changed the variable name page to status, for clarity, since api.request returns an iterator that returns statuses.

Just as you did with the key name query, all names must be quoted.

The maximum value of count is 100.

The object returned by api.request has no method called pages. If you want to get successive pages of tweets, you should look at this example https://github.com/geduldig/TwitterAPI/blob/master/examples/page_tweets.py

Upvotes: 2

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