twitter-stream.py VS getting-started-with-the-twitter-api-v2-for-academic-research

Bought it for my open source project's documentation. Twitivity.dev. I'm selling the domain only. It's a well-known open-source project. Featured on Twitter Docs. So has decent traffic. Registered November 2020. On Namecheap.com. Reason for selling? Funding the opening source project.

You might be right about me overthinking this. Twitter recently listed one of my libraries as a useful third-party tool to access their latest APIs - Twitter-Stream.py. Now I'm a bit paranoid. And I'm in a crippling fear that the implementation might not be following best practices. That's why I'm trying to refactor the codebase. Like making the components more concise and decoupled.

Sometimes professors don't want their students spending too much time writing code to get Twitter data using the API. Twitter recently launched the Downloader tool that lets researchers specify the search query for which they want the data, the time period and the format in which they would like the data i.e. JSON or CSV. Once specified, they can download the data and use for their assignments and projects. Learn more about how to write search queries here

In June, we launched a comprehensive course on getting started with the Twitter API v2 for academic research. This course is available for free and contains content, cheatsheets and code samples in Python and R to help academics learn how to get the Twitter data for research studies using the Twitter API. Since its launch, this course has been adopted as a prerequisite model by various professors who teach courses on computational social sciences, text mining etc.

In order to search Tweets from the last 7 days, you can use the search_recent_tweets function available in Tweepy. You will have to pass it a search query to specify the data that you are looking for. In the example below, we are searching for Tweets from the last days from the Twitter handle suhemparack and we are excluding retweets using -is:retweet.

In order to follow this tutorial, you need an approved Twitter developer account. Once you have a developer account, you will need a bearer token to connect to the Twitter API v2 to get the Tweets. Follow these instructions for obtaining a bearer token.