Twitter

A module for fetching data from The Twitter Search API.

class orangecontrib.text.twitter.Credentials(consumer_key, consumer_secret)

Twitter API credentials.

valid

bool: Indicates whether it’s a valid credentials.

class orangecontrib.text.twitter.TwitterAPI(credentials, on_start=None, on_progress=None, on_error=None, on_finish=None)

Fetch tweets from the Tweeter API.

Notes

Every search accumulates downloaded tweets. To remove the stored tweets call reset method.

create_corpus(included_attributes=None)

Creates a corpus with collected tweets.

Parameters:included_attributes (Optional[List of string]) – A list of tweets’ attributes to be included in the result.

reset()

Removes all downloaded tweets.

running

bool: Indicates whether there is an active task.

search(*, word_list=None, authors=None, max_tweets=None, lang=None, since=None, until=None, allow_retweets=True)

Performs search for tweets.

All the parameters optional.

Parameters:

• max_tweets (int) – If present limits the number of downloaded tweets.
• word_list (list of str) – A list of key words to search for.
• authors (list of str) – A list of tweets’ author.
• lang (str) – A language’s code (either ISO 639-1 or ISO 639-3 formats).
• since (str) – Fetch tweets only from this date.
• until (str) – Fetch tweets only to this date.
• allow_retweets (bool) – Whether to download retweets.

tweets

Iterator over the downloaded documents.