nltk.twitter.twitterclient.TweetWriter

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class TweetWriter(TweetHandlerI): (source)

Constructor: TweetWriter(limit, upper_date_limit, lower_date_limit, fprefix, ...)

Handle data by writing it to a file.

Method	`__init__`	The difference between the upper and lower date limits depends on whether Tweets are coming in an ascending date order (i.e. when streaming) or descending date order (i.e. when searching past Tweets).
Method	`do_continue`	Returns `False` if the client should stop fetching Tweets.
Method	`handle`	Write Twitter data as line-delimited JSON into one or more files.
Method	`on_finish`	Actions when the tweet limit has been reached
Method	`timestamped_file`	No summary
Instance Variable	`counter`	A flag to indicate to the client whether to stop fetching data given some condition (e.g., reaching a date limit).
Instance Variable	`fname`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`fprefix`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`gzip_compress`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`output`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`repeat`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`startingup`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`subdir`	Undocumented
Method	`_restart_file`	Undocumented

Inherited from TweetHandlerI:

Method	`check_date_limit`	Validate date limits.
Instance Variable	`do_stop`	Stores the id of the last fetched Tweet to handle pagination.
Instance Variable	`lower_date_limit`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`upper_date_limit`	Undocumented

Inherited from BasicTweetHandler (via TweetHandlerI):

Instance Variable	`limit`	Undocumented
Instance Variable	`max_id`	Undocumented

def __init__(self, limit=2000, upper_date_limit=None, lower_date_limit=None, fprefix='tweets', subdir='twitter-files', repeat=False, gzip_compress=False): (source) ¶

overrides nltk.twitter.api.TweetHandlerI.__init__

The difference between the upper and lower date limits depends on whether Tweets are coming in an ascending date order (i.e. when streaming) or descending date order (i.e. when searching past Tweets).

Parameters
limit	Undocumented
upper_date_limit	Undocumented
lower_date_limit	Undocumented
fprefix	Undocumented
subdir	Undocumented
repeat	Undocumented
gzip_compress	if `True`, ouput files are compressed with gzip.
int limit	number of data items to process in the current round of processing.
tuple upper_date_limit	The date at which to stop collecting new data. This should be entered as a tuple which can serve as the argument to `datetime.datetime`. E.g. `upper_date_limit=(2015, 4, 1, 12, 40)` for 12:30 pm on April 1 2015.
tuple lower_date_limit	The date at which to stop collecting new data. See `upper_data_limit` for formatting.
str fprefix	The prefix to use in creating file names for Tweet collections.
str subdir	The name of the directory where Tweet collection files should be stored.
bool repeat	flag to determine whether multiple files should be written. If `True`, the length of each file will be set by the value of `limit`. See also `handle`.