twitter-instructions.md

Instructions for capturing tweets

Setting up Twitter API credentials

1. Go to https://apps.twitter.com/

2. Sign In, and then follow the instructions below:

3. Press "Create New App"

4. Fill in form (you can enter your website or any website in the 'website' field i.e. http://google.com)

5. Press 'Create application'

6. Press 'Manage keys ...'

7. Press 'Create access tokens'

8. Find and save four values

   • Consumer Key

   • Consumer Secret

   • Access Token Key

   • Access Token Secret

Running the code

1. Install TwitterAPI: pip install TwitterAPI

2. Substitute the four values saved from 'Setting up Twitter API credentials' in twitter.py in

access_token_key = "<ENTER ACCESS TOKEN KEY>"
access_token_secret = "<ENTER ACCESS TOKEN SECRET>"

api_key = "<ENTER CONSUMER KEY>"
api_secret = "<ENTER CONSUMER SECRET>"

3. Run python capture-tweets.py <topic> to save tweets to file called captured-tweets.txt related to <topic>. I.e.: python capture-tweets.py Google or python capture-tweets.py Iran