twint 安装及使用

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Installation:

git+pip3:

git clone https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install twint

or pip3+pipenv:

pip3 install --user --upgrade -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint
pipenv install -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git#egg=twint

You may meet module cannot found error when you try to run twint after installation. On ubuntu, add ~/.local/bin into your PATH by:

export PATH=$PATH:~/.local/bin

You may edit ~/.bashrc file to permanately add the ‘~/.local/bin’ into your PATH.

Usage:

Running the twint cmd with arguments can give you results. A few simple examples to help you understand the basics:

• twint -u username - Scrape all the Tweets from user’s timeline.
• twint -u username -s pineapple - Scrape all Tweets from the user’s timeline containing pineapple.
• twint -s pineapple - Collect every Tweet containing pineapple from everyone’s Tweets.
• twint -u username --year 2014 - Collect Tweets that were tweeted before 2014.
• twint -u username --since "2015-12-20 20:30:15" - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20 20:30:15.
• twint -u username --since 2015-12-20 - Collect Tweets that were tweeted since 2015-12-20 00:00:00.
• twint -u username -o file.txt - Scrape Tweets and save to file.txt.
• twint -u username -o file.csv --csv - Scrape Tweets and save as a csv file.
• twint -u username --email --phone - Show Tweets that might have phone numbers or email addresses.
• twint -s "Donald Trump" --verified - Display Tweets by verified users that Tweeted about Donald Trump.
• twint -g="48.880048,2.385939,1km" -o file.csv --csv - Scrape Tweets from a radius of 1km around a place in Paris and export them to a csv file.
• twint -u username -es localhost:9200 - Output Tweets to Elastic search
• twint -u username -o file.json --json - Scrape Tweets and save as a json file.
• twint -u username --database tweets.db - Save Tweets to a SQLite database.
• twint -u username --followers - Scrape a Twitter user’s followers.
• twint -u username --following - Scrape who a Twitter user follows.
• twint -u username --favorites - Collect all the Tweets a user has favorited (gathers ~3200 tweet).
• twint -u username --following --user-full - Collect full user information a person follows
• twint -u username --profile-full - Use a slow, but effective method to gather Tweets from a user’s profile (Gathers ~3200 Tweets, Including Retweets).
• twint -u username --retweets - Use a quick method to gather the last 900 Tweets (that includes retweets) from a user’s profile.
• twint -u username --resume resume_file.txt - Resume a search starting from the last saved scroll-id.

More detail about the commands and options are located in the wiki