twitterhistory: a Python tool to download historical Twitter data
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2021-01-27, 2021-01-27
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Download posts and user metadata from the microblogging service Twitter.
This is a Python module to download posts and user metadata from the microblogging service Twitter using its API’s latest (as of 2021) version 2. Data are saved to a SQLAlchemy/GeoAlchemy2-compatible database (currently only PostgreSQL/PostGIS is fully supported, SQLite with some limitations, see https://geoalchemy-2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
This package is available from the PyPi software repository: https://pypi.org/project/twitterhistory
Its source code is hosted on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/christoph.fink/twitterhistory
Note that the attached file (version 0.2.0) is up-to-date as of January 27, 2021, and newer versions will be published on PyPi and GitLab.