A script to download all of a user's tweets into a csv

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tweet_dumper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
import csv

#Twitter API credentials
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""
access_key = ""
access_secret = ""


def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
    #Twitter only allows access to a users most recent 3240 tweets with this method
    
    #authorize twitter, initialize tweepy
    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_key, access_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    
    #initialize a list to hold all the tweepy Tweets
    alltweets = []  
    
    #make initial request for most recent tweets (200 is the maximum allowed count)
    new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200)
    
    #save most recent tweets
    alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
    
    #save the id of the oldest tweet less one
    oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
    
    #keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
    while len(new_tweets) > 0:
        print(f"getting tweets before {oldest}")
        
        #all subsiquent requests use the max_id param to prevent duplicates
        new_tweets = api.user_timeline(screen_name = screen_name,count=200,max_id=oldest)
        
        #save most recent tweets
        alltweets.extend(new_tweets)
        
        #update the id of the oldest tweet less one
        oldest = alltweets[-1].id - 1
        
        print(f"...{len(alltweets)} tweets downloaded so far")
    
    #transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv 
    outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text] for tweet in alltweets]
    
    #write the csv  
    with open(f'new_{screen_name}_tweets.csv', 'w') as f:
        writer = csv.writer(f)
        writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"])
        writer.writerows(outtweets)
    
    pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
	#pass in the username of the account you want to download
	get_all_tweets("J_tsar")

@likeablegeek, I added a License file.

@likeablegeek, I added a License file.

Thanks.

works like charm, just had to pass encoding parameter with value utf-8 at last block,

works like charm, just had to pass encoding parameter with value utf-8 at last block,

which line of code? can you please copy-paste your list block of code?
I had the same error problem.

How to get more than 3240 tweets?

@shubhamcodez You can't using the API, unless they're your own. It's a limit imposed by Twitter.

I found a script that let's extract all tweets at once.

Can you share the link?

Sure.

https://gist.github.com/shubhamcodez/0e51a5ee9a8d3115ddad96edaca7e1ac

Sure.

https://gist.github.com/shubhamcodez/0e51a5ee9a8d3115ddad96edaca7e1ac

Thanks Shubam, worked well.

Does this still work in late 2023 because of the API changes?

Does this still work in late 2023 because of the API changes?

Nope