Tweet-Miner-Function.ipynb

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    "#TweetMiner function from Mike Roman\n",
    "\n",
    "class TweetMiner(object):\n",
    "\n",
    "    \n",
    "    def __init__(self, api, result_limit = 20):\n",
    "        \n",
    "        self.api = api        \n",
    "        self.result_limit = result_limit\n",
    "        \n",
    "\n",
    "    def mine_user_tweets(self, user=\"HillaryClinton\", mine_retweets=False, max_pages=20):\n",
    "\n",
    "        data           =  []\n",
    "        last_tweet_id  =  False\n",
    "        page           =  1\n",
    "        \n",
    "        while page <= max_pages:\n",
    "            \n",
    "            if last_tweet_id:\n",
    "                statuses   =   self.api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=self.result_limit, max_id=last_tweet_id - 1, include_rts=mine_retweets)\n",
    "                statuses = [ _.AsDict() for _ in statuses]\n",
    "            else:\n",
    "                statuses   =   self.api.GetUserTimeline(screen_name=user, count=self.result_limit, include_rts=mine_retweets)\n",
    "                statuses = [_.AsDict() for _ in statuses]\n",
    "                \n",
    "            for item in statuses:\n",
    "                # Using try except here.\n",
    "                # When retweets = 0 we get an error (GetUserTimeline fails to create a key, 'retweet_count')\n",
    "                try:\n",
    "                    mined = {\n",
    "                        'tweet_id':        item['id'],\n",
    "                        'handle':          item['user']['screen_name'],\n",
    "                        'retweet_count':   item['retweet_count'],\n",
    "                        'text':            item['full_text'],\n",
    "                        'mined_at':        datetime.datetime.now(),\n",
    "                        'created_at':      item['created_at'],\n",
    "                    }\n",
    "                \n",
    "                except:\n",
    "                        mined = {\n",
    "                        'tweet_id':        item['id'],\n",
    "                        'handle':          item['user']['screen_name'],\n",
    "                        'retweet_count':   0,\n",
    "                        'text':            item['full_text'],\n",
    "                        'mined_at':        datetime.datetime.now(),\n",
    "                        'created_at':      item['created_at'],\n",
    "                    }\n",
    "                \n",
    "                last_tweet_id = item['id']\n",
    "                data.append(mined)\n",
    "                \n",
    "            page += 1\n",
    "            \n",
    "        return data"
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