hdf dataframeis void (no data inside)

[lucapug]

when executing the LongCovidDownload.ipynb, need to install first wget and snscrape (added a cell at the beginning). I execute all the following cells without errors (just have to change the path to save the final csv file). The issue regards the hdf dataframe created at the end of the notebook. if I check the data inside by executing hdf.head() there are no rws inside the dataframe..seems that tthere are no tweets scraped.

[now-youre-gittin-it]

Hi Luca, although I have not worked on this code yet I can try to guess as to what the issue is. I have faced issues in the past where the function is not performing the intended task even though the syntax is correct and base requirements are met. In this case, it seems hydrate_tweet() is not working, which is why the hdf dataframe may be empty. Is it confirmed that all requirements for hydrate_tweet() to work are met (e.g., if any additional context/credentials/parameters are needed)?

[lucapug]

Hi, seems that the problem depends on the development enviroment in which I run the code. In my first attempt I used Colab (Python 3.7.13 the default runtime) and probably TwitterTweetScraper() in the hydrate function is not correctly recognized. Today I tried to execute in local environment with Python 3.8.5 interpreter and this time the csv file was correctly created with the scraped tweets. So maybe can be considered closed the issue? maybe in the readme can be put some hints of the correct environment parameters (interpreter version..) ?

[now-youre-gittin-it]

Wonderful, its great that the code worked in a different environment! Its a good learning for us, about difference in results across environments. Definitely, we can document the exact environment used for the code so that we can run it successfully on other machines. Maybe we can do this at the end of the project so that we can have a uniform specification format for everyone's code.