staqutech

A Twitter bot for scraping data related to given twitter handle. This project is a part of backend intern challenge @ www.staqu.com

Project Configuration

Specify your consumer key,secret and access key,secret in configuration.py file residing at staqu_bot/scripts/ folder

Usages

Execute the bot_cli.py file with following commands -

• -h or --handle : To specify the twitter handler/screen_name (mandatory), example

>>> python bot_cli.py -h staqutech

• -f or --follower : Flag specify downloading the follower data, example

>>> python bot_cli.py -h staqutech -f

• -t or --tweet : Flag specify downloading the tweet data, example

>>> python bot_cli.py -h staqutech -t

• --help : Open the help menu
• Both follower and tweet data can be downloaded simultaneously, example

>>> python bot_cli.py -h staqutech -f -t

• Specifying one flag is mandatory

Notes

1. Downloaded data will be saved in dynamically generated folder residing at staqu_bot/data/
2. File naming convention - [handle]_[data].tsv , Example staqutech_followers.tsv , staqutech_tweets.tsv
3. Files are opened in a+ mode, so new data will be appended in existing file with same name