[QUESTION] insert my own variable into csv

[amandaashleywoo]

Command Ran

I’ve written this code attached above.

Description of Issue

lstn is a list with the same number of elements as lstf, and I’m trying to write a code that will add a column that includes my own custom value (from lstn) in the .csv file. How can I do that? However, in my code I can’t seem to change “x” to take on another value in c.Format.

Environment Details

MacOS Catalina, running in terminal

[pielco11]

You might want to edit twint/tweet.py adding your field, and twint/storage/write_meta.py to let it be saved into the output file

[amandaashleywoo]

I think everything’s saved into the output file as the loop is run, but I’m not sure how to make it read the variable {x}, and not read it as a string?

[pielco11]

c.Format is just for stdout, not what it's saved to the file

To change the saved fields you have to do as cited above, to format the stdout you just need to add that x field to each tweet. To achieve this you need to save the tweets to a list (read here https://github.com/twintproject/twint/wiki/Storing-objects-in-RAM#tweets) and specify c.Hide_output = True. Then, once the scraping process if finished, you have to iterate over tweets_list and then print

Basically something like

import twint

c = twint.Config()
c.Username = "user"
c.Hide_output = True
c.Store_object = True

twint.run.Search(c)
tweets = twint.output.tweets_list

for t in tweets:
    print(f"{t.id} {x}"

[amandaashleywoo]

alright, thank you so much!