yanofsky · March 13, 2026 06:05 · Apr 1, 2021 · May 6, 2020 · Nov 1, 2013 · Jun 7, 2013
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
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diff --git a/tweet_dumper.py b/tweet_dumper.py
@@ -12,50 +12,50 @@
 
 
 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 "getting tweets before %s" % (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 "...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))
-	
-	#transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv	
-	outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")] for tweet in alltweets]
-	
-	#write the csv	
-	with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'wb') as f:
-		writer = csv.writer(f)
-		writer.writerow(["id","created_at","text"])
-		writer.writerows(outtweets)
-	
-	pass
+    #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__':

diff --git a/tweet_dumper.py b/tweet_dumper.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
 
 	#keep grabbing tweets until there are no tweets left to grab
 	while len(new_tweets) > 0:
-		print "getting tweets gefore %s" % (oldest)
+		print "getting tweets before %s" % (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)

diff --git a/tweet_dumper.py b/tweet_dumper.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 
 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)

diff --git a/tweet_dumper.py b/tweet_dumper.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # encoding: utf-8
 
-import tweepy
+import tweepy #https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy
 import csv
 
 #Twitter API credentials

diff --git a/tweet_dumper.py b/tweet_dumper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# encoding: utf-8
+
+import tweepy
+import csv
+
+#Twitter API credentials
+consumer_key = ""
+consumer_secret = ""
+access_key = ""
+access_secret = ""
+
+
+def get_all_tweets(screen_name):
+
+	#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 "getting tweets gefore %s" % (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 "...%s tweets downloaded so far" % (len(alltweets))
+
+	#transform the tweepy tweets into a 2D array that will populate the csv	
+	outtweets = [[tweet.id_str, tweet.created_at, tweet.text.encode("utf-8")] for tweet in alltweets]
+
+	#write the csv	
+	with open('%s_tweets.csv' % screen_name, 'wb') 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")
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