Python's package to scrape Twitter's front-end easily with selenium.
This code was developed to extract information from twitter without using API as there are a limitation and costs for using official twitter API. You can extract based on your keyword and time frame (in minutes). You can extract unlimitted number of tweets.
you can install from source code using
git clone https://github.com/HamedMinaeizaeim/twitter_scraper_without_API.git
and then run
Python setup.py install
or you can run
pip install -r requirements.txt
alternatively, you can install using PyPl :
pip install twitter_scraper_without_API
To use this library, you just need to import the TwitterScraper scraper class and then specify your keyword search. By default, it will return all tweets within a minute. You can change it to extract tweets in the last n minutes. Here is a code to do that:
from src.twitter_scraper_without_api import TwitterScraper
twitter = TwitterScraper('bitcoin')
twitter.last_n_mins = 3
twitter.fetch_data()
You can export data as json, panda (Dataframe) and csv
df = twitter.store_data('dataFrame')
csv = twitter.store_data('csv')
json = twitter.store_data('json')
There is no issue with privacy in this library and search is based on publicly avaialble information