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repeatedly retrieve all the tweets of one user. maximum 3200, limited by twitter api
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| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| ## | |
| # this script serves to retrieve all the tweets of a user, and | |
| # do some text mining based on the data | |
| # | |
| # @author Yuan JIN | |
| # @contact chengdujin@gmail.com | |
| # @since 2012.03.01 | |
| # @latest 2012.03.01 | |
| ''' | |
| Copyright (c) 2012-2013, Yuan JIN | |
| All rights reserved. | |
| Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: | |
| * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. | |
| * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. | |
| * Neither the name of Redis nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. | |
| THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. | |
| ''' | |
| # reload the script encoding | |
| import sys | |
| reload(sys) | |
| sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF-8') | |
| def parse_and_store(data): | |
| from pymongo import Connection | |
| con = Connection('localhost', 27017) | |
| db = con.tweets | |
| from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup | |
| root = BeautifulStoneSoup(data) | |
| tweets = root.contents[2].contents | |
| lowest_id = '' | |
| for tweet in tweets: | |
| if tweet <> '\n': | |
| doc = {} | |
| for item in tweet.contents: | |
| if item <> '\n': | |
| doc[item.name] = str(item.string) | |
| if doc: | |
| db.tweets.save(doc) | |
| lowest_id = doc['id'] | |
| return lowest_id | |
| def data_retv(user, max_id): | |
| import httplib | |
| con = httplib.HTTPConnection("api.twitter.com") | |
| con.request("GET", "/1/statuses/user_timeline.xml?contributor_details=0&trim_user=1&count=200&screen_name=%s&%s" % (user, max_id)) | |
| reply = con.getresponse() | |
| data = reply.read() | |
| con.close() | |
| return data | |
| def main(): | |
| 'entrance to tweets retrieval and analysis' | |
| max_id = '' | |
| while True: | |
| data = data_retv('secret', max_id) | |
| max_id = parse_and_store(data) | |
| print max_id | |
| if not max_id: | |
| break | |
| else: | |
| max_id = 'max_id=' + str(int(max_id) - 1) | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| main() |
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