TwitterFollowersRecorder

A tool for recording the number of Twitter friends and followers and recording as CVS file on a regular basis.

Features

This tool can:

• retrieve the number of friends and followers using Twitter API.
• record them as CSV file on a regulary basis using cron.

Installation

Just clone this and start using it.

git clone https://github.com/kazumasa-kusaba/TwitterFollowersRecorder.git

Dependencies

• tweepy

Just do:

$ pip install tweepy

Write your access token infomation

Copy /docs/config.json to this project's root directory.
And replace each preset values with your Twitter access token information.

{
    "twitter_api": {
        "access_token": "ACCESS_TOKEN",
        "access_token_secret": "ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",
        "consumer_key": "CONSUMER_KEY",
        "consumer_secret": "CONSUMER_SECRET"
    }
}

Usage

usage: twitterfollowersrecorder.py [-h] [-q] command [target_screen_name [target_screen_name ...]]

positional arguments:
  command             the command you want to run
  target_screen_name  screen name of the target name

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet         do not output log

Commands

Command Name	Description
record	- Retrieve the number of friends and followers of any user specified by the arguments and record them as CSV file. - The CSV files will be saved as (this project directory)/results/(screen_name).csv. - The CSV format is "datetime, friends_count, followers_count".

Sample

If you want to record the number of friends and followers of @Cristiano (Cristiano Ronaldo) and @BarackObama (Barack Obama).

$ python twitterfollowersrecorder.py record Cristiano BarackObama

The CSV files will be in (this project directory)/results/.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Kazumasa Kusaba

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