Crawl's the entire Twitter timeline of any user with a public profile and stores it in a folder identical to the users Twitter-Handle (@Username).
- Clone or download this repository.
- Create and activate a virtual environment within your local copy's directory.
- Run
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run
python crawler.py -user user_name -destination-directory directory
Twint may be out of date whithin pip repositories; if you run into any issues, try installing Twint from Github directly. To do so, run
pip install --upgrade -e git+https://github.com/twintproject/twint.git@origin/master#egg=twint
within your virtual environment