This code is written by : Motaz_sassd

tweets-collector

Collect tweets (tweets corpus) using Twitter API.

Collection can be based on hashtags or keywords.

install requirements

pip install -r requirements

Getting your API keys from Twitter

1. Go to https://apps.twitter.com and create an new app

2. Provide a name and describe for the app, then specify permissions

3. Then go to keys and access management tab

4. put these info in credentials.txt and in api_keys.py files.

query_tweets.py Usage

usage: query_tweets.py [-h] -k KEYWORDS_FILE -o OUTFILE -n NUMBER

collect tweets based on keywords

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -k KEYWORDS_FILE, --keywords-file KEYWORDS_FILE
                        keywords or hashtags file. The file should contain one
                        keyword/hashtag per line
  -o OUTFILE, --outfile OUTFILE
                        the output json file path and prefix.
  -n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
                        the number of tweets that you want to collect

json2text.py Usage

usage: json2text.py [-h] -i JSON_DIR -o OUT_DIR

extract tweet texts from json

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i JSON_DIR, --json-dir JSON_DIR
                        tweets json directory
  -o OUT_DIR, --out-dir OUT_DIR
                        the output directory.

stream_geolocation.py Usage

Get Geo locations from http://boundingbox.klokantech.com/

usage: stream_geolocation.py [-h] -l GEO_LOCATIONS -j JSON -n NUMBER

collect tweets based on geographic location

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l GEO_LOCATIONS, --geo-locations GEO_LOCATIONS
                        geo location coordinates from
                        http://boundingbox.klokantech.com copy and past using 
                        csv option
  -j JSON, --json JSON  the the json output file.
  -n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
                        the number of tweets that you want to collect

stream_users.py Usage

Get users id from https://tweeterid.com

usage: stream_users.py [-h] -u USERS -j JSON -n NUMBER

collect tweets based on following twitter users

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERS, --users USERS
                        twitter user ids file. Get ids from tweeterid.com
  -j JSON, --json JSON  the the json output file.
  -n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
                        the number of tweets that you want to collect

Some pre processing in Java code

use the java file inside Rad Arabic File corpus for Reading the txt file process the Repeated characters Normalize the .txt file