Python code to search tweets in twitter
Recently I wrote a code to search keywords in twitter and extract the tweets as a part of a larger program. It uses twitter search api . I guess some of you might find this code snippet useful. :) import requests import sys import time from datetime import datetime def store_tweets(keyword, results, max_id): tweet_list = [] for item in results: tweet_id = item['id_str'] tweet_text = item['text'].encode('utf-8', 'ignore') if len(tweet_text) > 255: tweet_text = tweet_text[0:255] from_user = item['from_user'].encode('utf-8', 'ignore') from_user_id = item['from_user_id'] from_user_name = item['from_user_name'].encode('utf-8', 'ignore') profile_image = item['profile_image_url'].encode('utf-8', 'ignore') created_at = datetime.strptime(item['created_at'][:-6], "