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class Twitter(object): (source)
Wrapper class with restricted functionality and fewer options.
| Method | __init__ |
Undocumented |
| Method | tweets |
Process some Tweets in a simple manner. |
| Instance Variable | query |
Undocumented |
| Instance Variable | streamer |
Undocumented |
| Instance Variable | _oauth |
Undocumented |
def tweets(self, keywords='', follow='', to_screen=True, stream=True, limit=100, date_limit=None, lang='en', repeat=False, gzip_compress=False):
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¶
Process some Tweets in a simple manner.
Note that, in the case of streaming, this is the maximum date, i.e. a date in the future; if not, it is the minimum date, i.e. a date in the past
handle.
| Parameters | |
| keywords | Undocumented |
| follow | Undocumented |
| to | Undocumented |
| stream | Undocumented |
| limit | Undocumented |
| date | Undocumented |
| lang | Undocumented |
| repeat | Undocumented |
| gzip | if True, output files are compressed with gzip. |
| str keywords | Keywords to use for searching or filtering |
| list follow | UserIDs to use for filtering Tweets from the public stream |
| bool to | If True, display the tweet texts on the screen, otherwise print to a file |
| bool stream | If True, use the live public stream, otherwise search past public Tweets |
| int limit | The number of data items to process in the current round of processing. |
| tuple date | 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. date_limit=(2015, 4, 1, 12, 40) for 12:30 pm on April 1 2015. |
| str lang | language |
| bool repeat | A flag to determine whether multiple files should be written. If True, the length of each file will be set by the value of limit. Use only if to_screen is False. See also |